Latest updates: Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, says conditions at House of Commons often lead to ‘behavioural challenges’
There will be an urgent question in the Commons at 10.30am on the operation of visa application centres for Ukrainians, the Commons authorities have announced. The Lib Dem MP Wendy Chamberlain has tabled the UQ. A Home Office minister will respond.
Good morning. Yesterday’s revelation that a Conservative MP has been seen by female colleagues watching pornography on his phone in the Commons chamber, which emerged at a meeting where a group of female Tories complained to the whips about misogyny in the party, and which coincided with an ongoing debate about how women are treated at Westminster prompted by an article in the Mail on Sunday widely condemned as sexist, has created what feels like another MeToo moment. Whether it will lead to lasting change, though, remains to be seen.
