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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, spectators' daily politics podcast. I'm Azbar

Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. On Thursday polls were open for the local elections

amid a national political backdrop that couldn't get much bleaker. The House of Commons is once

again being referred to as Pest Minister, thanks to the revelation that more than 50 MPs

are under investigation for some form of sexual misconduct. The case that has most recently

exemplified this phenomenon is that of the Conservative MP Neil Parish, who has admitted

watching pornography of an acquired taste on at least two occasions in the chamber itself.

So if you Rayworth spoke to the Business Secretary quasi-quarting about the culture in Parliament.

We've heard this week how female cabinet minister was pinned against the wall by a male MP,

how female MPs had to see someone openly watching pornography in the House of Commons, in

the chamber in the House of Commons. Is the Commons a safe place for women to work?

I think it is. I think we've got to distinguish between some bad apples, people who behave badly

and the general environment. It is very similar to when people say, well, there are a number

of racist people in this country, so that means the whole country is racist. That doesn't

follow. There are some bad apples, there are people who've acted very badly. They should

be held to account. In Neil's case, he voluntarily resigned. He realised that what he'd done

was unacceptable. There's no professional work environment in which what he did was acceptable.

And he's resigned as a result. He's sorry to see him leave. He was an effective parliamentarian,

but I think what he did was wrong and he's taken the right decision.

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