NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
New allegations of ‘shocking’, ‘threatening’ and ‘intimidating’ behaviour by Sir Gavin Williamson have been made by one of his former government colleagues – including that he collected ‘salacious gossip’ about MPs’ ‘sexual preferences’ to potentially hold against them.
Ex-Conservative MP Anne Milton, deputy chief whip when Sir Gavin was chief whip between July 2016 and November 2017, also accused him of using MPs’ mental and physical health problems as ‘leverage’.
And she told Channel 4 News that Mr Williamson agreed for her to hand over a cheque to an MP experiencing financial difficulties – but instructed her: ‘Make sure when you give him this cheque, he knows I now own him.’
She added: ‘I don’t think it was a joke. It was the seriousness with which he said it. And I think that the bottom line is, if instances accord with your overall experience with somebody, then you believe them.’