Inquiry into MP’s ‘sex toy errand’
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Police urged anyone who took the tablets and is suffering ill effects to go to hospital as a matter of urgency. THE mental health response following the Grenfell Tower fire is the biggest operation of its kind in Europe, a doctor has said, with numbers affected likely to exceed 11,000.
The unprecedented need following the blaze has transformed the Central and North West London NHS Trust into “the largest trauma service in the UK”, according to chief psychologist Dr John Green.
Dr Green said it could be years before the true mental health toll was revealed. A FORMER soldier who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp is selling poppies for the Royal British Legion, aged 100.
Ron Jones, who marked his centenary on April 30, volunteers for up to six hours a day at his local supermarket in Newport, South Wales.
Grandfather-of-two Mr Jones, from Bassaleg, has been collecting for the Poppy Appeal since 1981.
He was called up to fight in 1940 and served as a lance corporal in 1st Battalion Welch Regiment in the Middle East. Mr Jones was captured in Benghazi in 1942 and, after nine months in Italy, was transferred to labour camp A GOVERNMENT minister faces an official Cabinet Office investigation into claims of inappropriate conduct towards a member of his Commons staff.
Theresa May ordered the inquiry into whether International Trade Minister Mark Garnier breached ministerial rules following allegations he used derogatory language to his secretary and asked her to buy sex toys.
The Prime Minister has also written to Commons Speaker John Bercow, asking for the establishment of a new grievance procedure to deal with complaints of misconduct at Westminster.
The decision to investigate Mr Garnier was disclosed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a television interview.
“These stories, if they are true, are obviously totally unacceptable,” he said.
A Tory Party spokesman said: “The Prime Minister is writing to the Speaker of the House of Commons calling for a new contractually binding grievance procedure to be set up for all MPs and their staff.
“As a result of allegations about a serving minister, the Prime Minister has also asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an immediate E715, part of Auschwitz. After two years at the camp, he was forced to join the “death march” of prisoners across Europe in 1945.
He was freed by American troops and finally returned home to Newport and his wife Gladys in May 1945.
“I’ve been selling poppies for about 30 years,” he said. investigation to see whether those reported actions break the ministerial code.” A national newspaper reported that Mr Garnier admitted asking his thensecretary, Caroline Edmondson, to buy two sex toys and calling her “sugar t**s” in front of witnesses.
“I’m not going to deny it, because I’m not going to be dishonest. I’m going to have to take it on the chin,” he is quoted as saying.
Ms Edmondson, who has since left to work for another MP, told the paper he gave her the money to buy the toys at a Soho sex shop – one for his wife and one for a woman in his Wyre Forest constituency office.
According to the paper, Mr Garnier described the incident as “high jinks” “We help dependants, we help the boys coming back from Afghanistan. If they need help, I’m there.”
He usually volunteers for three hours a day, but takes on a double shift of six hours, for three days of the appeal.
When asked whether he would ever retire from his role, he replied firmly: “No.” following a Christmas lunch, while he said the “sugar t**s” comment was part of an “amusing conversation” referring to the TV comedy Gavin And Stacey.
The paper said Mr Garnier conceded that, in the current climate, his actions could been seen as “dinosaur behaviour”, but insisted: “It absolutely does not constitute harassment.”
In a separate case, the paper said former cabinet minister Stephen Crabb admitted sending “explicit” messages to a 19-yearold woman he interviewed for a job in 2013, when he was a Welsh minister.
The married MP was quoted by the paper as saying he had been “foolish”, but that there had been no sexual contact.
“We exchanged messages which talked about sex, but none of it was meant seriously,” he was quoted as saying. “We met for coffee a few times and had a glass of wine once at the Commons, but nothing more. I accept any kind of sexual chatter like this is totally wrong and I am sorry for my actions.”
Mr Crabb resigned last year as Work and Pensions Secretary following reports of a similar incident.