Senior MP Peter Bone has been kicked out of the Conservative Party after being found to have committed bullying and sexual misconduct against a staff member.
Yesteday, Express.co.uk reported the 70-year-old faces a six-week Commons suspension and potential by-election after an investigation by Parliament’s top behaviour panel found him guilty of “many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct” against a member of his own staff.
Now a spokeswoman for the chief whip Simon Hart has said Mr Bone has had the Tory whip removed effectively removing him from the Conservative Party.
The complaint against the MP that was subjet to the investigation was made in October 2021, and a probe into the allegations began in September 2022.
Mr Bone has been a Member of Parliament for Wellingborough in Northamptonshire since 2005.
The Conservative Party acted a day after a watchdog recommended he should be suspended from the Commons for six weeks – potentially triggering a by-election in his Wellingborough seat.
Mr Bone was alleged to have exposed himself to a member of staff along with a series of acts of bullying.
Parliament’s Independent Expert Panel (IEP) said the MP “committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct” against a member of his staff in 2012 and 2013.
A spokeswoman for Chief Whip Simon Hart said: “Following a report by the Independent Expert Panel, the Chief Whip has removed the conservative whip from Peter Bone MP.”
