Peter Bone has been stripped of the Conservative whip removed after he was found to have indecently exposed himself to a staff member and trapped him in the bathroom of a hotel room.
Parliament’s standards chief upheld five claims of bullying and one of sexual misconduct against the leading Brexit backer and recommended a lengthy suspension.
A spokeswoman for the Tory chief whip Simon Hart said Mr Bone – who faces a possible by-election in his Wellingborough and Rushden seat – would no longer sit with the party in the Commons.
The six-week suspension recommended by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) would trigger a recall petition if approved by MPs, creating yet another by-election headache for Rishi Sunak.
Mr Bone was found by the parliamentary complaints watchdog to have “committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct” against a member of his staff in 2012 and 2013.
The standards commissioner’s report also said he had indecently exposed himself to the complainant on an overseas trip, initially in the bathroom of the hotel room they were sharing and then in the bedroom.
The backbencher, one of the most outspoken pro-Brexit Conservatives, was found to have engaged in “violence, shouting and swearing, mocking, belittling and humiliating behaviour, and ostracism”.
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