The chairman of the Westminster Committee on Women and Equality described the atmosphere in the House of Commons as a “preparatory school for boys”.
Caroline Knox has revealed that she stopped attending Tory MPs’ morning meetings because of inappropriate comments and no longer attended the party’s annual conference because of the “terrible” behavior she was experiencing.
Speaking against the backdrop of an intense debate on misogyny in parliament sparked by the news that Tori Neil Parish was watching porn in the Municipal Hall, Ms Knox revealed that she had personally been subjected to male MPs who “touch, stare, harass, ruin my reputation. “
Speaking on a Chopper’s Politics podcast, Ms. Knox criticized the locker room culture in the municipalities, making her feel like a preparatory school for a boy. [except] the prisoners have not quite reached 13 ”.
“The great reality is that there is still a culture of teasing that would have been eradicated in any other workplace long ago,” she said.
“There have been incidents that I have reported with whips. The deputies touch me inappropriately. I remember being harassed by one. “
Ms Knox added that “terrible things” had happened to her, including “touching, watching, harassing, damaging my reputation”.
Explaining why she was no longer attending the Conservative Annual Conference, Ms. Knox said: “I have had some horrible, horrible incidents there.
“The bars are awful. The receptions are terrible. I remember a male parliamentarian touching my hand inappropriately in the breakfast room at the Birmingham Hotel. He just stroked my arm at breakfast. Terrifying. ”
Ms Knox said: “There is something in politics that attracts a certain type of man, especially a macho man, waving desire.
“This is a profession in which people who are assertive and powerful are attracted to it. And I think that creates challenges. “
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