This being the 21st century, mercifully few employees keep a tally of how many of their colleagues have groped them. In the 22 years that Chris Bryant has been a member of parliament, five male MPs have felt his bottom uninvited. One of them did so repeatedly.
Another pushed him against a wall and felt his crotch. Yet another rubbed himself up against him when they were queueing to vote. “Things are somewhat better today,” he writes in his new book about why parliament is broken, but he was far from the only victim, male or female.
“The truth is,” he tells me today, “back when these things happened more than 15 years ago, we all used to sweep them under the elegant Pugin
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