Widdecombe: It’s ridiculous

VIEW Ex-minister Widdecombe ANN Widdecombe says many of the harassment claims engulfing Parliament are “ridiculous”.

The former Tory minister said: “There are serious complaints and those I take very seriously indeed. But most of this has been a lot of nonsense. I do not consider a mildly flirtatious remark sexual harassment...

“Sense of proportionality has deserted the whole thing. People putting in complaints 15 years later that they may have been lightly touched – it is ridiculous.”

She added she had never been sexually harassed at Westminster.