THE Tory MP who is accused of watching porn in the House of Commons has been revealed.
The Conservative Party has removed the whip from the alleged offender.
An investigation by the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) was launched after the allegations surfaced during a meeting of Tory MPs on Tuesday.
Neil Parish, the chair of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, has represented the Tiverton and Honiton constituency in Devon since 2019.
A spokeswoman for Tory chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris said: “Having spoken to the Chief Whip this afternoon, Neil Parish MP is reporting himself to the Standards Committee of the House of Commons.
“Mr Parish has been suspended from the Conservative whip pending the outcome of that investigation.”
It has now been confirmed the wrong body was named in this statement, and Parish has in fact referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, not the Standards Committee of the House of Commons.
Earlier this week, Parish had denied there was a culture of misogyny in Westminster.
He told GB News: "I think you've got sort of 650 members of parliament in what is sort of a very, you know, very intense area, I mean you are going to get people that step over the line.
"Is it, I don't think there's necessarily a huge culture here but I think it does have to be dealt with and dealt with seriously.
'You are going to get people that step over the line.' Neil Parish, who has had the whip removed following accusations he watched pornography in the Commons, spoke to Darren McCaffrey earlier this week and denied there was a cultural problem in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/bHHQedHpdo
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"I think, you know, that's what the whips will do in our whips office."
It comes at the end of a scandal-ridden week for the Tories, after Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner was smeared in a Mail On Sunday story which accused her of crossing and uncrossing her legs to "distract" the Prime Minister during debates.
Then the Prime Minister was forced to promise sexual harassment and abuse would be considered a resigning matter, after Green MP Caroline Lucas said 56 MPs across the Commons were accused of predatory behaviour - including three Cabinet members.
And Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Secretary of State for International Trade, revealed she had been pushed up against a wall by a male colleague - now resigned - on more than one occasion.
She claimed all female MPs had been subject to "wandering hands" while in work.
