A former minister was arrested yesterday after a woman accused him of rape, sexual assault and coercive control. The Conservative MP was held and questioned all day in a police station in East London before being released on bail last night.
The complainant, a former parliamentary worker, accused the middle-aged man of abuse during a relationship last year. She alleges that the MP assaulted her, forced her to have sex and left her so traumatised that she had to go to hospital.
Another Conservative MP reportedly raised the woman’s allegation with party chief whip Mark Spencer and leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg after speaking to the alleged victim a month ago.
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