{"id":3447,"date":"2022-05-01T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowgroup.org\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2022-05-01T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:30:45","slug":"we-need-an-independent-body-to-deal-with-misconduct-complaints-covering-parliament-and-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowgroup.org\/we-need-an-independent-body-to-deal-with-misconduct-complaints-covering-parliament-and-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need an Independent Body to Deal with Misconduct Complaints Covering Parliament and Political Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>There needs to be an independent body that deals with misconduct allegations covering Parliament and political parties, handling complaints taking place inside and outside of the parliamentary estate, proposed Bow Group chairman Ben Harris-Quinney.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bow Group chairman made the remarks in response to Conservative MP Neil Parish announcing his resignation after he admitted to watching pornography in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Harris-Quinney told GB News: &#8220;This is set in the wider context of 56 MPs currently being investigated for some kind of sexual misconduct. That figure is just under 10 per cent of the whole of the House of Commons, and about 50 times higher than the national average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So there is clearly something going on in Parliament that marks it apart from the average workplace and the average community. Parliament hasn&#8217;t moved in step with the rest of the country, and clearly something needs to be done to arrest that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;There needs to be a recognition that this is a political problem as much as it is a House of Commons problem.&#39;<br><br>Chairman of The Bow Group, Ben Harris-Quinney, on Neil Parish&#39;s resignation and the 56 MPs being investigated over sexual misconduct allegations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SPSGImfF1a\">pic.twitter.com\/SPSGImfF1a<\/a><\/p>&mdash; GB News (@GBNEWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBNEWS\/status\/1520683078917701632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bow Group chairman added that individual cases of sexual misconduct, such as that of Mr Parish, is indicative of a wider problem in British politics, rather than him being the centre of any problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recalling his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3356909\/Party-bullies-forced-says-critic-Tatler-Tory-branded-vile-homophobe-menace-suspended-Conservatives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">involvement<\/a> in exposing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/mark-clarke-tatler-tory-sexual-assault-allegations-report-david-cameron-conservatives-road-trip-latest-a7195856.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015 Tatler Tory scandal<\/a>, Mr Harris-Quinney said that an issue with dealing with some misconduct allegations stemmed from the incidents taking place outside of the Parliamentary estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;One of the problems was that a lot of the misbehaviour was occurring outside of the walls of Parliament. 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