MPs are this afternoon due to vote on whether to exclude colleagues who have been charged by police with a violent or sexual offence from the parliamentary estate.
Health minister Andrea Leadsom is set to lead a revolt against a watering down of plans to ban MPs facing sexual misconduct claims from the House of Commons.
Health minister Andrea Leadsom is set to lead a Tory revolt against a watering down of plans to ban MPs facing sexual misconduct claims from the House of Commons 'If a school teacher had been arrested on suspicion of rape, they would be suspended, and I believe it should be the same for MPs.Dame Andrea told Politico she was concerned the Government motion was 'more than fair to the accused' but 'does nothing to protect the alleged victim'.
'It's a matter of safeguarding and I'm not sure why we would have rules that others in the country don't have to live by,' she said.
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