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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Eleni Courea Political correspondent

Ex-Tory MP reprimanded for ‘brazen’ sexual misconduct

Aaron Bell, former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme
Aaron Bell, former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme. The incident took place in parliament’s Strangers’ bar in December 2023. Photograph: Richard Townshend/UK Parliament

A former Conservative MP has been reprimanded for “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in one of parliament’s bars.

Aaron Bell, who was the Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until July, was found by a parliamentary watchdog to have “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and without her consent”.

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