Neil Parish's Exit Interview
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Neil Parish, the MP who resigned after it was revealed he had watched porn in the Commons, joins Christopher Hope to give his final interview before handing in his badge at Westminster. The former Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton expresses his wish to apologise to the witnesses directly, argues that the complaint procedure does not allow for MPs who want to admit wrongdoing, and hints at a possible return as an independent MP - watch this space.
Also on the podcast, Leader of the Commons Mark Spencer MP on how to improve the culture in parliament and whether keeping the calibre of MPs high means an awkward conversation about pay.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's Politics, was the only time you ever looked at pornography in your life? |
| 0:06.0 | I have looked at it before. You know, I mean what I will say to you, a lot of people that have |
| 0:13.8 | to throwing stones at me, I suggest probably have two. It's just that they |
| 0:15.1 | didn't choose the House of Commons to look at it. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to the Red Lion pub in Westminster. I'm |
| 0:22.3 | Christopher Hope, chopper to my pals the |
| 0:25.5 | associate editor for politics at the Daily Telegraph and this is chopper's politics and |
| 0:31.6 | as I recorded this episode, the news broke that the Met Police had issued a hundred fines in the Party Gate Saga. |
| 0:40.0 | It's the culmination of, well, let's say a tricky few weeks for a government dealing with difficult |
| 0:47.6 | local election results and a series of questionable scandals around the culture in Westminster. |
| 0:55.0 | One of those was former Tory MP Neil Parish, who resigned after two of his colleagues, |
| 1:00.0 | said they've seen him watching pawn in the House of Commons and |
| 1:05.0 | Neil will be joining us on this podcast for his exit interview as an MP. |
| 1:12.0 | But first the person who has been at the heart of these issues for the past |
| 1:16.1 | two years has been Mark Spencer, first as Government Chief Whip and more recently as the leader of the House of Commons. |
| 1:25.0 | So I invited Mark Spencer downstairs to my usual stool in the Red Line pub for a chat. |
| 1:31.0 | Mark Spencer, welcome to chopper's politics. |
| 1:35.0 | How have you found the transition from being Chief Whip to the House? |
| 1:38.0 | I mean it's definitely different, isn't it? |
| 1:40.0 | But obviously the Chief Whip role you do work quite closely with the leader of the House. but obviously my relationship with |
| 1:44.4 | the chief whip role you do work quite closely with the leader of the house so |
| 1:45.6 | obviously my relationship with Jacob Reese Mog my British sister was a very |
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