Pigs may fly, Hell may freeze over, and a month may pass without a Conservative MP revealing the moral decay at the core of the party. Yesterday, former MP Imran Khan was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy. In Westminster, meanwhile, rumours circulated that a senior MP had sexually assaulted colleagues. Yet another member was bailed after being arrested in a rape investigation.
These stories shouldn’t be confused with the unnamed Conservative MP who was arrested over rape allegations in 2020 before the investigation was dropped or the former government whip Charlie Elphicke who was jailed for sexual assault in 2020. Neither should they be mistaken for that of the former minister Andrew Griffiths who was found by a family court judge to have raped his wife.
They also shouldn’t be confused with the three cabinet ministers who have been reported to a parliamentary watchdog for sexual misconduct or the rotating cast of MPs suspended for sexual harrassment.
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