Tories tried to ‘cover up’ porn MP scandal by not naming Parish earlier, says Labour – as it happened

Neil Parish, who has been suspended from Tory party. Photograph: Commons TV

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Afternoon summary

• Neil Parish, the Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has reported himself to the parliamentary authorities over allegations that he watched pornography in the House of Commons chamber. The former Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman, told Times Radio that this was a “new low” for the House of Commons and that Parish should resign immediately. Karen Bradley, the Conservative former cabinet minister, minister, told the BBC’s PM programme she hoped Parish would “do the right thing and not come into parliament” while being investigated. The Liberal Democrats said Boris Johnson should force Parish to resign now (see 4.16pm) and the Labour party accused the government of trying to cover up the scandal, because Parish’s name could have been released earlier. (See 4.13pm.)

• Boris Johnson is allowing a “wild west” culture of misogyny to grow in Westminster by failing to tackle “the arrogance of privately educated men,” Tracy Brabin, England’s only female metro mayor, has said.

• Britain will send investigators to Ukraine to help gather evidence of war crimes, including sexual violence, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has said.

• The National Crime Agency has launched a potential fraud investigation into a PPE company linked to Michelle Mone and searched the Tory peer’s shared home.

Updated at 7.00pm BST

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Labour's Jess Phillips says men should take responsibility for their behaviour instead of blaming Westminster 'culture'

Keir Starmer suggested earlier today that sexism at Westminster was linked to a problem with the culture there. (See 4.46pm.) Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, made a similar argument yesterday. But the Labour MP Jess Phillips told Times Radio today that she thought there was a much simpler explanation for men engaging in sexist behaviour. She explained:

One thing I’m going to say about the culture in Westminster, and I have been asked this week over and over again, ‘Is it a toxic environment for women?’ And the answer is no, it isn’t a toxic environment for women.

I go about my business working in Westminster perfectly reasonably. There’s dreadful sexism, dreadful abuse, dreadful power imbalance, all of those things definitely exist.

But I am a tiny bit irritated by the idea that it is a pervading culture, that people can’t fight against it, the reason that somebody thought it was okay to watch porn in the chamber is because of the late nights and the drinking and the culture in Westminster - utter rubbish. The reason that person did that is because, for want of a better word, they’re an arsehole. And they should take personal responsibility for their behaviour.

Updated at 5.43pm BST