One attendee said: ‘We were having a discussion about being a woman in politics, particularly a woman in the governing party. They said they had seen a male Tory MP watching porn on his phone a few weeks ago. Today's revelation is not the first time MPs have got into trouble over their porn-watching habits. In December 2017 Damian Green was sacked as de facto deputy prime minister for lying about claims that police found pornography on a computer in his office a decade earlier. The first secretary of state denied viewing inappropriate material on the computer, but a Cabinet Office investigation found Mr Green had issued two 'inaccurate and misleading' statements about the 2008 discovery.
In 2014 Conservative MP Karl McCartney denied 'favouriting' an explicit image on Twitter after a photo of a naked woman tied to a bed appeared on his account. The Lincoln MP insisted he had never made use of the 'favourite' button on the cult website – used to endorse messages sent by other people. It came after the 'graphic' image showed up on his Twitter account, sparking ridicule online. Mr McCartney, who is married with two children, removed the image along with '50 other random tweets' that had been favourited on his Twitter feed. Mr McCartney said he was concerned that the site could be exploited by 'malicious and salacious attempts to embarrass the account holder' as the general election approaches.
