British Conservative MP Neil Parish announced his resignation on Saturday, admitting that he had indeed watched pornography in the House of Commons, which other parliamentarians have accused him of.
I looked for tractorsassured the BBC the 65-year-old elected official, a former farmer. I came across another site with a similar name and searched for a while, which I shouldn’t have donehe tried to explain.
But my crime, my biggest crime was I went back there a second time and it was deliberatehe confessed to the brink of tears, referring to a insane moment.
In an interview with Daily Telegraph published on Saturday morning, he suggested he might have opened the site in error.
We support the decision [de Neil Parish] to step down as a Member of Parliamentsaid a Conservative spokesman for the Tiverton and Honiton constituency, where Mr. Parish was elected in 2019.
The announcement of his resignation came after an investigation launched Wednesday by Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party into the incident.
The MP’s name has not yet been released, but Mr Parish has reported himself to Parliament’s Committee on MPs ’Conduct, the Tories announced on Friday, suspending him from their group. parliamentarian during the investigation.
The elected official then announced that he wanted to continue to perform his role as a representative while conducting investigations.
Many MPs have demanded that he resign before the end of the investigation if the accusations against him are true.
” Neil Parish should think we were born yesterday. Boris Johnson’s Tories are a national disgrace. “
The Labor MP found himself in the middle of a misogynistic attack last weekend after he was accused by unknown Tory MPs of contentedly interfering with the Prime Minister by crossing and removing his legs in Parliament, comments described by Boris Johnson on Monday as sexist and misogynistic nonsense.
Also last week, the Sunday Times revealed that three ministers and two opposition MPs are facing charges of bad behavior with a sexual nature.
They were among 56 MPs who reported to an office responsible for registering such complaints, which was set to follow the movement. Me too.
Source: Radio-Canada
