Newly-elected MP Glenn Bedingfield will keep writing his controversial blog but the Prime Minister wants him to “tone it down”.

Mr Bedingfield, who was elected to Parliament during Tuesday’s casual election, told this newspaper yesterday he intended to continue writing on his self-titled website.

Throughout the previous legislature, his controversial blog raised eyebrows on numerous occasions with many taking issue with the controversial opinions he expressed while employed within the Office of Prime Minister.

He hit out at journalists and media houses and also ridiculed Opposition politicians. Government sources told this newspaper that although Mr Bedingfield would continue to write, he had been directed to tone down his posts in future.

While I will have less time to dedicate to my blog, it is my intention to keep it running

Mr Bedingfield said that although he would focus on parliamentary work, as an MP he had the right to express himself online, “as many others do”. “While I will have less time to dedicate to my blog it is my intention to keep it running,” he said.

Earlier this year, the former MEP had told Times Talk he and his boss, Joseph Muscat, rarely discussed what he wrote, adding he could not recall ever being rebuked by the Prime Minister for having overstepped the limit. Mr Bedingfield had said his blog was an entirely personal endeavour, that his job at the Office of the Prime Minister limited what he could write about and that nobody criticised blogs “when it was only Labourites being hounded”, a dig at Daphne Caruana Galizia’s controversial blog.

It was not just his blog that had come under fire in the past four years. Mr Bedingfield had also taken to twitter to share a few contentious opinions in the past, including a tweet in which he had shared a video clip of Archbishop Charles Scicluna accompanied by the caption: “At least, the Prime Minister didn’t go into any children’s bedrooms”, referring to a child abuse case involving former clerics.