Oneterm wonder Jared O’Mara had quite an exceptional two and a half years in Parliament. Having unseated former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in June 2017, the Labour MP was the first autistic MP elected to the Commons but quickly found himself being suspended for racist, homophobic and misogynist comments posted prior to his election.
In July 2019 O’Mara’s former employee Jennifer Barnes complained that she had received inappropriate messages and approaches from O’Mara through various media. Having stood down at the 2019 election, the parliamentary standards commissioner has today found that O’Mara did indeed breach parliament’s sexual misconduct policy, with his right to a parliamentary pass now withdrawn. It is the first publicly reported upheld sexual harassment complaint under the independent process – another unhappy first for O’Mara.
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