we need to show. to women and girls, if you come into i politics, it s going to be an environment where you are - safe, you ll feel respected. parliament is certainly a unique workplace. mps employ their staff directly. it s a place of late nights, long hours, powerful people and boozy bars. a new process for dealing with sexual harassment and bullying complaints was introduced four years ago. everything that we ve talked about in the last week is a breach of the rules already, but the key thing is, do we make sure that those rules are then enforced? i express my sympathy. but the speaker of the house of commons says there now needs to be an urgent review into how westminster works. he wants cross party talks, and swift reform. i think he wants to pull parties together and see what else can be done. i m very happy to participate in that because we can t go on with allegations coming out overand overagain.
we need to show to women and girls, if you come - into politics, it s going to be i an environment where you feel safe, you ll feel respected. parliament is certainly a unique workplace. mps employ their staff directly. it s a place of late nights, long hours, powerful people and boozy bars. a new process for dealing with sexual harassment and bullying complaints was introduced four years ago. everything that we ve talked about in the last week is a breach of the rules already, but the key thing is, do we make sure that those rules are then enforced? i express my sympathy. but the speaker of the house of commons says there now needs to be an urgent review into how westminster works. he wants cross party talks, and swift reform. i think he wants to pull parties together and see what else can be done. i m very happy to participate in that because we can t go on with allegations coming out overand overagain.
about how long that takes and therefore what impact that is really having at the moment on culture. what the speaker is looking at changing specifically is a very specific way that westminster works in the way that it employs staff. mps in the way that it employs staff. mps staff are directly employed by mps staff are directly employed by mps at the moment. that can raise problems because it can mean that you end up in a situation of staff being wary of coming forward with complaints and issues because they are in effect having to complain about their boss to their boss. he wants to set up this very formal sort of enquiry called a speaker s commission to look at changing that. that hasn t been used since 2008, so it is quite a big thing. but in terms of changing the wider culture, the sorts of things that mps have suggested to me this week, some have suggested to me this week, some have suggested increasing the number of female mps would change the culture further. they have of cour
application is that they are not. however, what they have said is that if they are presented with evidence that backs up these allegations, they will look at that very carefully. they will look at that very carefully- they will look at that very carefully. they will look at that very carefull . ., , , ., ., ., carefully. you spend a lot of time down there. carefully. you spend a lot of time down there, you carefully. you spend a lot of time down there, you will carefully. you spend a lot of time down there, you will be - carefully. you spend a lot of time down there, you will be aware . carefully. you spend a lot of time | down there, you will be aware that particularly when governments do not have a big majority, they have a kind of, you know, they use a lot of tactics, some of which might make your grandmother blush, but actually, in a sense, there almost an understanding, that in the end they cut kind of tie you up in a bowl and lock you in a room, you re free to vote. the
it is really concerning because we need it is really concerning because we need to it is really concerning because we need to make sure that westminster is a place need to make sure that westminster is a place that is safe and welcoming for everyone. women, people welcoming for everyone. women, people of welcoming for everyone. women, people of different cultural backgrounds and other backgrounds, whether backgrounds and other backgrounds, whether it backgrounds and other backgrounds, whether it be sexuality or whatever. ithink whether it be sexuality or whatever. i think that whether it be sexuality or whatever. i think that this does speak to a concerning kind of culture where the people concerning kind of culture where the people at concerning kind of culture where the people at the top, the whips, the people people at the top, the whips, the people in people at the top, the whips, the people in charge, stamping on the little people or doing whatever is necessar