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Politics

UK lawmaker from Johnson's party suspended in porn in parliament case

(Corrects statement by chief whip's spokesperson who changed wording)

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker as it looks into reports that a member of the party watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons debating chamber.

Neil Parish, a Conservative member of parliament since 2010, was suspended from the parliamentary party after reporting himself to a standards commissioner in parliament, said a spokesperson for the party's chief whip, who oversees discipline.

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