Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times I'm Matt Chorley.

We've left the usual studio this week.

I'm in Westminster or Pestminster as it's been dubbed by some to discuss the sexual

harassment scandal which seems to be engulfing Parliament this week. We'll speak to

Jess Phillips the Labour MP who's been outspoken in criticizing Theresa May for

not sacking some of the Tory MPs already named and shamed.

And I'll also be asking her, what is matter with people why can't they just come to

Parliament do their jobs and go home without sending people who don't want it pictures of their

private parts.

I'll also speak to Jane Merrick, Red Box regular columnist, about her experience as a young political

journalist and how she was made to feel uncomfortable by a Conservative MP and what she thinks

needs to change in Parliament.

Already this week we've seen Michael Fallon apologize for putting his hand on the knee of Julia Hartley

Boo, a journalist some 15 years ago. Mark Garnier, a government minister is admitted taking his research to buy sex toys for his wife

and constituency workers. Stephen Krab, former cabinet minister, has admitted sending

inappropriate texts to a 19-year-old woman who had applied unsuccessfully for a job

with him. So how serious is it? How wide does it go? And this list which

is circulating amongst Tory researchers, the dirty dossier, how seriously should we be taking it?

I'm joined now in the Port Colis House in the Palace of

Westminster surrounded by MPs, researchers and parliamentary staff to pick over some of

these issues. I'm joined by Rachel Sylvester the Times columnist

who's written this week about what she sees as a strain of misogyny on the

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