The Labour MP for Chester - Chris Matheson - has announced his resignation after he was set to be suspended from Parliament for "serious sexual misconduct."
A Parliamentary watchdog was recommending that the Member of Parliament be suspended from the Commons for four weeks after it found him to be in breach of Parliament's sexual misconduct policy.
The independent panel report came about after a complaint from a junior member of Mr Matheson's staff. It found that in 2019 Mr Matheson had invited the young staff member on a private trip to Gibraltar. The Parliamentary Commissioner found that the invitation was "sexually motivated, unwanted and had placed the complainant under pressure and intimidated her."
