in parliament and probably got one of the best reputations ever, or did have. neil parish wasn t a well known mp, until now. but will be remembered for behaviour that caused shock and outrage across parliament and a very candid resignation interview. i will have to live with this for the rest of my life and i made a huge, terrible mistake and i m here to tell the world. for parliament s reputation, it has been another rotten week, reviving claims of sexism and misogyny. the allegations were first made at a meeting of tory mps on tuesday. opposition parties said it was shocking that the debacle dragged on for several days. conservative mps have been angry too. neil himself, once he had the whip suspended, moved very swiftly to resign, and undoubtedly that was the right thing for him to do. the thing that disappointed me was that we didn t see the conservative whips act more swiftly when this complaint
and have probably got one of the best reputations ever, or did have. neil parish wasn t a well known mp, until now, but will be remembered for behaviour that caused shock and outrage across parliament. i think there is a great deal of work to do to make sure that the house of commons is a place where women are respected and appreciated, and not merely tolerated. and i very much hope that this can act as a watershed moment so we don t see another deluge of really prominent female parliamentarians coming forward to highlight the misogyny and the harassment that they ve faced. there will now be a by election in the normally rock solid tory seat of tiverton and honiton in devon, where voters have been absorbing the abrupt resignation of their mp.
name, and i watched it for a bit, which i shouldn t have done. but my crime biggest crime is that on another occasion i went in a second time. mr parish said he deliberately looked at the material again while waiting to go into a commons voting lobby. and the one thing i wasn t doing, and which i will take to my grave as being true, is i was not actually making sure people could see it. in fact, i was trying to do quite the opposite. i was wrong, what i was doing, but this idea that i was there watching it and intimidating women, i mean, i have had 12 years in the parliament and have probably got one of the best reputations ever, or did have. neil parish wasn t a well known mp, until now, but will be remembered for behaviour that caused shock and outrage across parliament. i think there is a great deal of work to do to make sure that the house of commons is a place where women are respected and appreciated and not merely tolerated. and i very much hope that this can
and which i will take to my grave as being true, is i was not actually making sure people could see it. in fact, i was trying to do quite the opposite and i was wrong what i was doing, but this idea that i was there watching it and intimidating women, i mean, i have 12 years in parliament and probably got neil parish wasn t a well known mp, until now. but will be remembered for behaviour that caused shock and outrage across parliament and a very candid resignation interview. i will have to live with this for the rest of my life to tell the world. for parliament s reputation, it has been another rotten week, reviving claims of sexism and misogyny. the allegations were first made at a meeting of tory mps on tuesday. dragged on for several days.
i went in a second time. mr parish said he deliberately looked at the material again while waiting to go into a commons voting lobby. the one thing i wasn t doing, and which i will take to my grave as being true, is i was not actually making sure people could see it. in fact, i was trying to do quite the opposite and i was wrong what i was doing, but this idea that i was there watching it and intimidating women, i mean, i have 12 years in parliament and probably got one of the best reputations ever, or did have. neil parish wasn t a well known mp, until now. but will be remembered for behaviour that caused shock and outrage across parliament and a very candid resignation interview. i will have to live with this for the rest of my life and i made a huge, terrible mistake and i m here to tell the world. for parliament s reputation, it has been another rotten week, reviving claims