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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Former MP reprimanded for ‘brazen’ sexual misconduct

Former Conservative MP Aaron Bell has been reprimanded by a parliamentary watchdog after it found he had committed “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in a House of Commons bar last year.

Parliament’s Standards Commissioner found the former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme had inappropriately touched a female member of staff while in Stranger’s Bar in December 2023.

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