Day’s suspension ordered for MPs who wrote to senior judges before hearing in sexual assault case
Several Conservative MPs will be suspended from the Commons for a day and told to apologise for trying to influence a judge presiding over the trial of a colleague for sexual assault, the standards committee has ordered.
The temporary ban from parliament was handed down to the backbenchers Sir Roger Gale, Theresa Villiers and Natalie Elphicke – the former partner of Charlie Elphicke, who was given two years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of sexual assault.
