British Conservative MP Neil Parish announced on Saturday that he would resign, admitting that he had indeed watched pornography in the House of Commons, which he had been accused of by other parliamentarians.
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“I was looking for tractors,” the 65-year-old former farmer told the BBC. “I came across another site that had a similar name and looked around for a while, which I shouldn’t have done,” he attempted to explain.
“But my crime, my biggest crime, is that I went back there a second time and it was deliberate,” he confessed on the verge of tears, evoking a “moment of madness”.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Saturday morning, he suggested that he may have opened the site “by mistake”.
“We support (Neil Parish’s) decision to step down as a Member of Parliament,” said a Conservative spokesman for the constituency of Tiverton and Honiton, where Mr. Parish was elected in 2019.
The announcement of his resignation comes after an investigation was launched on Wednesday by Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party into the incident.
The name of the MP had not been released, but Mr Parish had reported himself to the Parliament’s Committee on MPs’ Conduct, the Tories announced on Friday, who had suspended him from their group. parliamentarian during the investigation.
The elected official then announced that he wanted to “continue to fulfill his role as a deputy while the investigations are in progress”.
Many MPs insisted that he resign before the conclusions of the investigation if the accusations against him were true.