Two senior female Tories have spoken out about abuse experienced by women in Westminster Tim Ireland/PAA cabinet minister has been named in a secret WhatsApp group used by women working in Westminster who warn each other about MPs with a reputation for sexually inappropriately behaviour. Members of the group include parliamentary researchers, secretaries and aides who claim that politicians on both sides of the house have had sex in their offices, indecently pestered members of staff and subjected female workers to sexist nicknames, The Sun reported. Specific allegations include a cabinet minister groping a person at a drinks party, a Labour MP groping a woman while on a foreign trip, a parliamentarian demanding that staff buy sex toys as gifts and a Tory grandee who has been banned from hiring young “leggy” women to work for him. The allegations have…

Source: The Times October 26, 2017 23:15 UTC