Ex-Tory MP carried out ‘brazen and drunken’ sexual misconduct in parliament bar, watchdog finds

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Former Conservative MP Aaron Bell carried out “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in the parliament bar, a watchdog has found.

The former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and without her consent” while in one of parliament’s bars in December 2023, parliament’s standards watchdog found.

Had he still been an MP, the panel would have considered suspending him from parliament “for a significant period”, it said.

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