MP groped me in bar, claims male intern

A FORMER Labour parliamentary intern has claimed he was sexually assaulted by an MP he did not know inside the House of Commons.

James Greenhalgh said he was told he could not make a complaint anonymously when he tried to report it to the MP’S party, so he did not take it further.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Greenhalgh said the male MP, who is no longer in the Commons, put his arm around him outside one of the bars in 2012. “Suddenly his arm slipped down towards my buttocks and went a bit further between my legs,” he said.

Separately, a former Liberal Democrat youth leader told The Daily Telegraph she was “touched up” by a peer but was told to continue working with him to “further her career”.

Kavya Kaushik alleged that the peer touched her thigh in 2013. She made clear the man in question is not Lord Rennard. The claims came as it emerged that Labour activist Bex Bailey, whose rape allegation was reportedly hushed up by a senior official, said she attempted to change Labour’s rule book so that victims of sexual abuse could report their concerns to someone independent of the party, but her attempts were ignored by senior staff.

Other Labour staffers claimed coverups are “endemic” in the party.