Speaking to LBC, the British politician said: ‘I remember when I came in, in 2001, I was regularly touched up by older, senior gay – they weren’t out – MPs. A UK parliament member has alleged that he was ‘regularly touched up’ by senior gay lawmakers when he was first elected.Īs stories mount in Westminster over an alleged culture of misogyny and bullying, Chris Bryant, who chairs the standards committee, claims at least four unnamed male gay MPs, who kept their sexual orientations private, targeted him in the early 2000s.īut he says he never officially complained about the incidents as he didn’t want to ‘become the story’.
