Braintree MP James Cleverly's most tweeted words are 'Corbyn' and 'Labour', a Twitter analysis has shown.

A breakdown of tweets sent by the Conservative MP shows between January and May this year, he sent 1,462 tweets, with 340 of these relating to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

An analysis using the statistics site TweetStats showed Mr Cleverly was most active on Twitter between the hours of 8am to 11am.

The MP also writes more Tweets on a Wednesday than any other day of the week.

On Tuesday May 30, in the midst of a general election campaign, Cleverly tweeted a total of 102 times in a single day.

He increased his majority in the general election by 5,000 with 32,873 votes.

Mr Cleverly uses the social media app Twitter to tweet latest updates and to keep in touch with his constituents.

However, Twitter has been under the spotlight for allowing abuse from anonymous trolls.

From when Parliament broke up for recess on July 20, Mr Cleverly has had more than 300 tweets by anonymous trolls, with some 326 tweets containing hate speech or abuse.

Last month the Prime Minister ordered an inquiry into the abuse of candidates during the June election.

Parliament and its MPs are in recess, with MPs going back to work on September 5.

Parliament was dissolved on May 7 before the general election on June 8.

On the Labour leader tweets, Mr Cleverly said: "While most of us have had a quiet summer recess, Corbyn has not.

"He has been going around the country and highlighting things which are superficially interesting, and so I think drawing attention to these things is important.

"He is out campaigning and I think it is important to raise these issues."

On trolls, Mr Cleverly added: "Twitter to me is an easy way of sending simple messages, and I for one am very much a believer in free speech.

"Most trolls want attention and take advantage of the anonymity which the platform offers, but I think it is a very small minority of users.

"All they want is a row.

"Most MPs see Twitter as a very useful tool to keep in touch with constituents, and I think it is a fantastic way of communicating with the people we represent.

"I don't read their Tweets, and I don't pay any attention to trolls."