Scandals involving MPs are no rarity. They seem to come along in batches every few years. There were the sleaze allegations that rocked John Major’s government in the 1990s, the #MeToo reckoning in 2017 and the succession of them that helped bring down Boris Johnson’s government in 2022.
As part of Labour’s drive to modernise parliament, the responsibility for handling some of the more serious misconduct complaints against MPs is to be handed over to the independent parliamentary process. This would mean that rather than investigating them internally, parties would refer complaints of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct to the Independent Complaints and Grievance System (ICGS).
