Following allegations that he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons debating chamber, a British lawmaker was suspended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. He claims he opened the graphic content by accident.
After submitting himself to parliament’s standards commissioner on Friday, Neil Parish was suspended as a Conservative MP. He has stated that he will remain a member of parliament until the investigation is conducted.
Asked by reporters whether he had opened something on his phone in error, Parish said: “I did, but let the inquiry look at that.”
According to reports in the British press, a female minister stated she witnessed a male colleague watching pornographic material while sitting next to her in the Commons chamber, as well as the same lawmaker watching pornography during a committee hearing.
Parish’s wife claimed in an interview with The Times newspaper published on Saturday that she was unaware of her husband doing anything similar previously and that he was “a lovely person.”
“It was all very embarrassing,” the newspaper quoted Sue Parish as saying. “My breath was taken away, frankly.”
“People shouldn’t be looking at pornography. He would never just sit there with people looking … These ladies were quite right to be as cross as they were because I was cross, too,” she said.
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