'Porn Tory' MP Neil Parish's wife has branded him 'oversexed' - but he insists he just has a "healthy appetite."
Speaking about their 41-year marriage last night, the former Tiverton MP, who quit after being caught watching porn in the Commons chamber, insists he really was Googling tractors the first time.
He told the Mail : "Everybody laughs and says you’re telling porky pies but I’m not. When you go on to Google, lots of things come up. I look at tractors and cars."
He added: "There was a direct link [to the site]. I’m not going to say what I Googled but it’s not The Dominator as has been reported, because that’s a combine harvester.
"I have gone on to sites before — you know, scantily clad things and what have you — but I haven’t gone on to anything like this, to be honest with you.
"The problem is I shouldn’t have gone on to it a second time. It was the second time that did it."
Mr Parish's resignation as an MP prompted the Tiverton and Honiton by-election, where Boris Johnson suffered a crushing defeat, losing the seat to the Lib Dems for the first time in nearly a century.
Mr Parish claimed he had accidentally stumbled upon the X-rated videos while searching for farm machinery, before doing so deliberately a second time.
The Mirror revealed an outraged female minister had complained about the incident after seeing him viewing porn on his phone in the chamber.
Mr Parish said wife Sue "always says I’m oversexed - I don’t know if I am but I have a healthy appetite. She used to say when I was a little too amorous, “I’ll get the scissors to you if you don’t behave yourself. Snippety, snip.”
Mrs Parish corrected him to say she had, in fact, chased him around the kitchen with "burdizzos — the things you use on cattle to crush their balls."
