Theresa May has weekly reports on her ministers’ sex pest activities – and does nothing. Let’s consider the reasons

Sexual harassment can be as apparently innocent as touching somebody on the shoulder – but the allegations against Conservative ministers go much further than that [Image: The Times of India].

We should not be surprised that Theresa May receives reports on the unwanted/illegal sexual activities of her ministers (called the “Ins and Outs” report, in extremely poor taste).

UK television viewers were primed for it, all the way back in the early 1990s, when a scene in the original House of Cards TV series showed Francis Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson) blackmailing another member of his Parliamentary party, who had committed a sexual indiscretion, into voting a particular way in the House of Commons.

And former Tory whip Tim Fortescue spoke out about the practice in 1995:

And Diane Abbott – the victim of more online personal abuse than all other current MPs put together – has said that Westminster has long harboured a culture of sexual harassment:

We know that Mrs May has these weekly reports. We know she does not punish MPs whose names are contained in these reports. And we know that she is in a very difficult position, at the head of a minority government that could be toppled at any time by a rebellion from her own benches.

Given that we know all these things, are we not entitled to know what she does with the information in these reports?

Did she know about Stephen Crabb and Mark Garnier, for example?

Mr Crabb – a man who once claimed that homosexuality is “curable” – has been accused of “sexting” a woman after he rejected her application for a job in his office.

And Mr Garnier allegedly called his female secretary “sugar tits”, and gave her money to buy two vibrators at a sex shop in Soho – standing outside the store while she did it.

Click on their names (highlighted above) for the full stories if you haven’t read them.

As Mr Garnier is a minister for international trade, an investigation has been launched into whether he has breached the Ministerial Code. This Writer has no doubt that he will be found not to have done so – partly because I can’t find anything in the Ministerial Code covering sexism and/or sexual indiscretions, and partly because the ultimate judge in such cases in the prime minister – Theresa May.

And it seems likely she already knew about Mr Garnier’s behaviour via the weekly “Ins and Outs” report.

Let us remember: Blackmail is a crime. It would be inappropriate for me, or anyone else, to accuse the prime minister of engaging in such an activity without evidence.

That being said, given the information available, we are well within our rights to ask whether she has received information about ministers who have been implicated in inappropriate sexual activities – and what she has done with it.

Perhaps Mr Corbyn could ask her about it, at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.


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6 Comments

  1. leonc1963 October 29, 2017 at 3:49 pm - Reply

    This is why there needs to be an independent investigation/inquiry as May’s Cabinet Office cannot be trusted.

  2. Roy Beiley October 29, 2017 at 6:30 pm - Reply

    If JC asks May about it at PMQ’s she will probably retort that “it was worse under Labour” whilst her ” nodding donkeys” either side of her will smirk and nod away as if she has said something of great importance based upon real evidence rather than lying blather

  3. aunty1960 October 30, 2017 at 12:39 am - Reply

    And Labour Does Not Do This? Of course it does. covers up, attacks the complainants and victims uses sexual blackmail same way, Protects members from complaints or sexual harassment rape, pedophilia and pederasty.

    WE ALL KNOW THIS. No shock there, just naivety. And the police and any investigation wont do anything either.. Dont paint the kettle black when the pot and whole kitchen is black too. They are all corrupt, and yes Corbyn knew all the time and also covers up and stays silent. Which side is his conscience buttered and which side is his silence complicite because of the political and power advantage.

    GIVE IT A BREAK, THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT AND ALL THE SAME.

    • Mike Sivier January 14, 2018 at 5:36 pm - Reply

      I think the general secretary of the Labour Party – not to mention the Tory press – would be delighted to receive your physical, factual evidence of the behaviour you suggest within the Labour Party.
      I’d quite like to see it, as well.
      Let’s have it, please.
      We DON’T all know this. You are trying to suggest that some of us do, in order to encourage those who don’t know it to accept it anyway.
      No.
      We don’t know anything without hard evidence.
      So show us your evidence.
      If you don’t have any, you’ll probably have to apologise as these are pretty serious allegations.

  4. NMac October 30, 2017 at 9:39 am - Reply

    This highlights the arrogance and ignorance of many nasty Tory MPs.

  5. davidmortimermiltonkeynes November 4, 2017 at 7:08 pm - Reply

    One minute everyone’s talking about paedophiles in parliament being blackmailed by MPs to make them do whatever they want & then all sorts of sexual abuse allegations are made by MPs but not one of them has been accused of being a paedophile.
    http://www.ukfamilylawreform.co.uk/abuse.htm
    http://www.ukfamilylawreform.co.uk/tonyblair.htm
    http://www.ukfamilylawreform.co.uk/theresamay.htm

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