LONDON: A British lawmaker suspended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party after allegations that he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons debating chamber has claimed that he accidentally opened the obscene video.

After submitting himself to parliament’s standards commissioner on Friday, Neil Parish was suspended as a Conservative MP. He has stated that he will remain a member of parliament until the probe is conducted.

When reporters asked if he had accidentally opened something on his phone, Parish answered, “I did, but let the inquiry look at that.”

According to reports in the British press, a female minister stated she witnessed a male colleague studying pornographic material while sitting next to her in the Commons chamber, as well as the same member perusing pornography during a committee hearing.

Parish’s wife claimed in an interview with The Times newspaper published on Saturday that she was unaware of her husband having done anything similar previously and that he was a “nice person.”

Sue Parish was reported in the newspaper as adding, “It was all really embarrassing.” “My breath was taken away, frankly.”

“People shouldn’t be looking at pornography. He would never just sit there with people looking … These ladies were quite right to be as cross as they were because I was cross, too,”  she explained.

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