Conservative Member of Parliament Neil Parish speaks at a business breakfast on June 1, 2016. He said he would resign after admitting he had watched porn during the Lower House. institute.
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Conservative Member of Parliament Neil Parish speaks at a business breakfast on June 1, 2016. He said he would resign after admitting he had watched porn during the Lower House. institute.
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Neil Parish, a Conservative member of Parliament, said he would resign after admitting to viewing pornography twice in the House of Commons during a “moment of madness”.
The first time by chance, he told BBC. It happened after he was looking at the tractor. But the second time, it was intentional.
“…It’s interesting those are the tractors that I’m looking at,” he told the BBC. “I went to another website with a very similar name and I looked at it a little bit that I shouldn’t have. But my crime – the biggest crime – was that on another occasion I visited a second time. .”
Two female colleagues said they saw Parish watching porn from his phone while they were sitting near him. The Conservative Party suspended him on Friday over the charges.
In a statement Friday, the parish speak he will cooperate with any investigation.
“Following recent allegations regarding a congressman’s use of their cell phone in Parliament, I have introduced myself to the Commissioner for Standards in the House of Commons,” Parish wrote in a statement. Father.
Incident is latest sexual misconduct allegations in British politics. Three additional Conservative members of Parliament are currently suspended from the party following claims of sexual misconduct, the Associated Press reported.
