Up to 56 MPs have been accused of “sexual misconduct”
One admitted to having seen porn in the House of Commons. Another, after consuming four lines of cocaine, crawled into a woman’s bed naked – and unsolicited. A third was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. All three were Conservative MPs, and that was only last month. A new scandal this week, the arrest of another Tory MP charged with rape and sexual assault, casts new shadows on Boris Johnson’s party and the culture of intimidation that Westminster cannot eradicate.
Up to 56 deputies, including three members of government, are under investigation by the British Parliament for sexual ‘misconduct’, as reported in the Sunday Times. The cases reported to the Independent Complaints and Claims Program (ICGS), founded in 2018 and sponsored by the #MeToo movement, range from inappropriate sexual comments to more serious events, some of which are criminal, such as an alleged payment in return. for sexual favors.
Complaints are mounting and the British press this week rediscovered the term ‘Pestminster’, a play on words between ‘plague’ and Westminster, already naming the spate of sex scandals that rocked Parliament in 2017, forcing the resignation from the Secretary of Defense and the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs, and they promoted the establishment of the ICGS.
The last known case was arrested by police on Tuesday and released on bail the following day. His name has not been released, but it is known that he is a Conservative MP in his 50s, who has been charged with, among other things, sexual abuse and assault, rape and breaking a position of trust. Scotland Yard, which has been investigating the complaint for two years, said the events took place between 2002 and 2009 in London. For now, his group has asked him not to go to Westminster while the investigation is ongoing, although he has not been suspended.
“It is worrying that we are seeing these appalling allegations about a deputy again,” said Secretary of State Liz Truss. While there are also two Labor members or members of the Scottish Nationalist Party among those under investigation by parliament, a very significant number of those suspected in recent years have been Conservatives, adding to the reputational wound that has been left through the ‘party gate’. . Johnson himself is the first British head of government in history to be fined for violating the incarceration rules laid down by his executive.
Last month, Tory MP Neil Parish resigned after he was found to have watched pornography at least twice in the House of Commons. His seat and that of his colleague Imram Ahmad Khan will be the subject of extraordinary elections on June 23, in which the Conservatives could lose both seats to Labor and the Liberal Democrats. Khan was expelled from the party last month after a court convicted him in 2008 of assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
For now, David Warburton, who was photographed drugged and accused by a woman last month of crawling into his bed naked, has only been suspended by the party. Two other women who worked in his office have also sued him for similar behaviour. I spent the past month in a psychiatric hospital.
Source: La Verdad
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