“Conversations are going on” on whether to create powers to bar MPs who are under investigation from Parliament, House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said on Thursday.
It comes after a Conservative MP was bailed after being arrested over allegations including rape.
The Metropolitan Police said in January 2020 it “received a report relating to alleged sexual offences having been committed between 2002 and 2009.”
It confirmed on Tuesday that the MP, who is in his 50s, remained in custody after being arrested on suspicion of “indecent assault, sexual assault, rape, abuse of position of trust, and misconduct in public office.” The force said on Wednesday that the MP had been bailed pending further enquiries to a date in mid-June….