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While an MP is accused of viewing porn during the debates, Angela Rayner, number two of the Labor Party, was the subject of an article in the “Mail on Sunday” where she is compared to Sharon Stone using her footwork to divert attention from Boris Johnson, sparking a wave of outrage.
It doesn’t fly high in Westminster. After Partygate, make way for revelations about sexism. The British political world is again rocked by a series of scandals, between a sexist comparison of a Labor MP with actress Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct and watching porn videos in the midst of debates in the House of Commons. At the same time, the Sunday Times reveals that the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), an independent body responsible for monitoring the conduct of parliamentarians, was investigating 56 MPs accused of sexual harassment. “It is a grim account of women’s political life,” reports in the newspaper an elected.
The tone rose after the front page of the conservative Sunday newspaper Mail On Sunday, April 24. It displayed a photo of Angela Rayner, number 2 of Labour, the Labor Party (the main opposition party), sitting on the benches of Parliament, in a skirt and tights, legs crossed. Next to it is an image of actress Sharon Stone in Paul Verhoeven’s film. In all seriousness, the article, signed by Glen Owen, the editor of the political service…