Cabinet Office to probe Garnier as Westminster harassment row grows
COMMENTS Tory minister Mr Garnier CLAIMS Secretary Caroline Edmonson Stephen Crabb has apologised for sexting a 19-year-old after interviewing A TOP Tory minister faces an official her for a job in 2013. He was accused investigation after admitting asking of a similar scandal last year. his secretary to buy sex toys for him A Westminster worker told the and calling her “sugar t*ts”. Mirror she was groped by a senior
Father-of-three Mark Garnier, 53, a advisor at a Christmas party. She deputy of International Trade separately named one Labour and one Secretary Liam Fox, will be probed by Tory MP who she said were rumoured the Cabinet Office as the Westminster to have acted inappropriately. sexual harassment scandal grows. A Tory MP was accused of
Revealing the inquiry, Health “pestering” a woman to come to Secretary Jeremy Hunt told his hotel room and find the BBC: “These stories, another woman for a if they are true, are threesome during a obviously totally Tory conference. unacceptable.” Another ex-Tory
The sex abuse minister is accused claims “cover of asking a secretary behaviour by MPs of to “feel the length of all parties”, he added. my d***”.
Theresa May wrote One female Labour to Commons Speaker MP said a number of John Bercow demanding MPs in her party are said better protection for IMPROVING Abbott to have “gone to ground” women at Westminster. says it is better now since the scandal broke.
The Prime Minister said last night: Labour’s John Mann hinted a fellow “It is important that those who work in MP was sent home from a foreign the House of Commons are treated jaunt “for inappropriate behaviour”. properly and fairly – as would be A current Cabinet minister allegedly expected in any modern workplace.” put his hand on a senior female
She called for a “House-wide journalist’s thigh and said: “God, I love mediation service”, saying the those t*ts.” One former Labour staffer “suggested disciplinary procedure” told us he once walked in on an MP provided by the Commons watchdog having sex with an intern. “does not have the required teeth”. Shadow Home Secretary Diane
The Mirror is aware of nine Abbott said the culture for women in allegations so far, including the claims Parliament had improved since she by ex-secretary Caroline Edmonson was elected in 1987, but there was “still against Mr Garnier, who insists it was a long way to go”. all just “good-humoured high-jinks”. The Tories and Labour said they
Former Tory Cabinet minister take such allegations very seriously.