British International Trade Minister Mark Garnier has been caught up in a sexism storm. (Tim Goode/PA via AP)After a Christmastime lunch in 2010, then-British Parliament member Mark Garnier handed his secretary cash and took her to a sex shop in the west end of London. Then, Caroline Edmondson told the Sun, Garnier stood outside the shop while she completed the purchase. As The Washington Post’s Michelle Ye Hee Lee reported, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has urged former and current staffers to use the #MeTooCongress hashtag to share their stories of sexual harassment. “I think we would find that sexual harassment is rampant in the institution.

Source: Washington Post October 29, 2017 21:21 UTC