An MP who watched porn on his phone while sitting in the House of Commons is expected to quit parliament. | latikambourke
An MP who watched porn on his phone while sitting in the House of Commons quit parliament on Saturday, setting up a second byelection for Boris Johnson who has faced mounting pressure on his leadership in recent months.Neil Parish, a farmer, who represents a seat in Devon, south-west England for the Conservative Party said he accidentally stumbled on the explicit content while looking for tractors.
“I did get into another website with a sort of similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn’t have done. “I’m not defending what I did for one moment,” he said and added that he was doing the interview to put on record that he was telling the truth. On Wednesday, Parish appeared on GB News and spoke about the allegations while his identity as the culprit was being suppressed and said that the issue should be investigated by the whips but insisted there was no culture problem in the Parliament.
Parish’s resignation as the MP for Tiverton and Honiton came after he initially said he would stay on and await the findings of an inquiry by Parliament’s standards commissioner.
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