MP suspended in row over ‘sexism’
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The move follows the announcement that Labour had launched an inquiry amid mounting pressure over the Sheffield Hallam MP’s comments and behaviour.
In the Commons, Theresa May said MPs needed to show “due care and attention” in the way they referred to other people.
Asked about Mr O’Mara’s comments, she said women in public life deserved to be treated with respect.
“All of us in this House should have due care and attention to the way in which we refer to other people and should show women in public life the respect they deserve,” she said.
The announcement that Labour had removed the whip pending the outcome of the inquiry came after the woman he is alleged to have abused called for him to be suspended. Sophie Evans told TV reporters: “Initially, I wanted him to apologise to me. Now it’s too late. I want him to admit what he’s done.”
Mr O’Mara has consistently denied making the alleged comments, said to have been made in a bar in Sheffield in March, just months before he was elected as an MP for the first time.
A Labour Party spokeswoman said: “He has had the whip suspended while the investigation is carried out.”
The announcement was welcomed by shadow education minister Tracy Brabin, who told reporters: “That’s probably a wise move and we’ll see what comes out of the investigation.”
Earlier, however, shadow attorney general Baroness Chakrabarti said Mr O’Mara deserved a second chance, having apologised for past homophobic and misogynistic postings on social media.
“He has apologised for things that he did 15 years ago when he was, as he describes, a troubled young man,” she said.
“He is clear that he doesn’t have those views now. And, I think, in relation to things that happened 15 years ago, people should be given a second chance. If I only enjoyed the company of people who were completely pure in relation to misogyny, homophobia, racism, and had never been wrong, I wouldn’t get out much.”
Asked how Mr O’Mara came to be selected to stand for Labour, Lady Chakrabarti said: “I don’t think we should rule people out for bad attitudes when they were in their early 20s.
“In a sense, it was less of a problem for our generation because we didn’t have the online social media world.”
On Monday, Mr O’Mara resigned from his position on the Commons Women and Equalities Committee after the homophobic and sexist online comments he made more than a decade ago came to light.
Newly revealed online comments from the same period show he also made derogatory remarks about the Spanish and Danes.