British MP accused of watching porn in House of Commons chamber resigns

A British member of Parliament accused of watching pornography in the House of Commons chamber has resigned after pressure from his own party.

Neil Parish, 65, of the governing Conservative Party, stepped down after what he described as a moment of “madness.”

Parish, chairman of the house’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said he was trying to look at a tractor website, but stumbled into a porn site with a similar name and watched it for “a bit.”

“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time,” he told the BBC. “And that was deliberate.”

Reports that a lawmaker had watched porn triggered a flood of complaints from women in Parliament about the misogyny and sexual harassment they have experienced.

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