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Meet your MP — Neil Parish

Is there no end to MPs’ bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, unaccountability or misbehaviour in general? How much do you actually even know about your local MPs? This is Neil Parish, former Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton.

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Apr 30, 2022 — 3 min read

Is there no end to MPs’ bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, unaccountability or misbehaviour in general? How much do you actually even know about your local MPs?

This is Neil Parish, former Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton.

First published: April 2022 | Updated June 2022.

NEIL PARISH MP

🌳 Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton

▪ MP elected on 6 May 2010 (elected 4 times). He resigned on 4 May 2022.
▪ Majority: 24,239
▪ Voting record
▪ Registered Interests

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KNOWN FOR:

▪ 2013 – Voted against the implementation of same-sex marriage (source)

▪ 2016 – Voted in favour of the UK leaving the European Union (source)

▪ 2022 – Watched porn in the House of Commons (source)

FAMOUS QUOTES:

▪ On same-sex marriage – “These things are best left to evolve, this should be for the Church and Christians to decide, not for parliament to legislate.” (source)

▪ On Brexit – “I personally made the case for Britain to remain in the EU as the best option for British agriculture.” (source)

▪ On an MP watching porn in the HoC (before being found out) – “When you’ve got sort of 650 members of Parliament in what is, you know, a very intense area, I mean you are going to get people that step over the line. I think it does have to be dealt with and dealt with seriously.” (source)

▪ On admitting watching porn in the HoC – “The situation was, funnily enough, it was tractors I was looking at, so I did get into another website with sort of a very similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn’t have done. My crime — my biggest crime — is that on another occasion I went in a second time — and that was deliberate. That was sitting waiting to vote.” (source)

FACTS:

▪ “In the case of porn in parliament, it appears that it was left to a woman MP sitting next to the man in question to report the matter. Forced into an uncomfortable situation by a colleague who didn’t seem to care, she had to take another uncomfortable step in sparking an investigation.” (source)