Some male MPs behave ‘like animals’. In the wake of the recent spate of bad behaviour among our lords and masters, Attorney General Suella Braverman’s comments confirm what many of us already knew. So what is going on down at the Westminster farm? Whoever is to blame for the moral degradation in SW1, this string of stories should trouble Boris Johnson. After all, political scandal is often followed by political upheaval.
Female MPs have claimed that a Tory MP has been openly watching porn on the green benches. A troubled Tory, Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis – who recently announced that he was intending to transition, and has spoken of the trauma of being raped – has been charged with leaving the scene of a car crash without reporting the accident. Another Tory MP, Wakefield’s Imran Ahmad Khan, is stepping down – but not just yet – after being convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
On the Labour side of the House, Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe has lost the party whip (but refuses to resign) after being convicted of harassing a love rival by threatening to throw acid in her face and send naked photographs of the woman to her family. Birmingham
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