heat and humidity. friday is quite a hot day in england and wales. some showers stall for scotland and northern ireland, but temperatures reaching 28 degrees in the south. if you are heading to wimbledon it should be dry for the next couple of days, but potentially thundery showers on the way into the weekend. thanks, sarah. that s all from bbc news at ten in edinburgh. stay with us on bbc one for the news in all the nations and regions, but we leave you with some of the memorable images and sounds of today s royal events in the capital of scotland. good night. pipe band music plays. there are big names in westminster, and a new kind of feel impressed or in awe, it is hard to know how to whitening captions will resume shortly. subtitles will resume shortly. he kept saying, come and sit on my lap, and i said, iam he kept saying, come and sit on my lap, and i said, i am fine, he kept saying, come and sit on my lap, and i said, iam fine, i don t want to, and he was so persiste
i mean, explain that process to me. why did you feel that you had to do that? because ijust couldn t get him off my case. and when you re a staffer, there is this excitement that you re there amongst people who are known, whether it s a journalist or anyone else. there are big names in westminster, and you kind of feel. ..not intimidated by them, but sort of impressed or in awe, and for someone who is known or respected, whatever the opinions are in westminster, it s hard to know how to say no without kind of checking that i m just a staffer and this person s an mp. the mp is one of a number of mps to have been suspended over separate allegations. in 2018, parliament set up the independent complaints and grievance scheme, or the icgs, to investigate complaints about inappropriate behaviour such as bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct,
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process in place, the icgs. why have you not spoken to them before? it takes a long time, and it can quite wear you down, having to talk over and over again, give your evidence, provide witnesses, to something that is deeply personal and very sensitive. and so often you can think, is it worth taking 15 months to raise a complaint about something that to me was just a minute of my life? not really. the same things still go as before me too. women and young men still need to protect themselves and each other, but now there s a false front used for it all to go on behind closed doors. the false front of processes in place , when so many of us know the processes are useless. i mean, just ask anyone who s tried to use them. the annual icgs report states that, of the 21 completed investigations it carried out, 12 were cases where an mp was a respondent. these cases, it states, took an average time of 262 days.