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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm & Michael Savage

Disgraced Tory MP Neil Parish ‘broke law’ by watching porn in Commons

Neil Parish outside his home in Somerset
Neil Parish outside his home in Somerset. ‘I will have to live with this for the rest of my life,’ he said after resigning. Photograph: Tom Wren

Disgraced Tory MP Neil Parish, who resigned his seat on Saturday after admitting he had twice watched pornography in the House of Commons chamber, appeared to have committed a criminal offence which carried a maximum two-year prison sentence, Labour said.

Parish, who had represented the safe west country seat of Tiverton and Honiton since 2010, said that on the first occasion he watched porn on his mobile phone next to other MPs, including women, he had done so by accident.

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