mr pincher says, back to his house and made unwonted advances. his house and made unwonted advances. mr pincher says, if mr storey has felt offended, then i can only apologise. the fact that a lot of these allegations are historic but what mr storey has said anne goes back to the first point we were making, is that mr pincher is now a government whip. that may lead to someone government whip. that may lead to someone else faced with a similar predicament. that is at the nub of a lot of this. you may be afraid to say anything because it may damage your career or you fear that nothing will be done. much will difficult, if you want to be an mp and it is a very long process to go and do it and on the basis of that, you will be worried about getting a black mark against you. that has stopped an awful lot of people from doing that. while you are with us, the sunday at post taxes to scotland. the tentacles of this story are going to spread. i think that is right. if you think about it started, harvey weinstein and moves out to a lot of other institution

because alex storey said he has decided to speak out because mr pincher was a government whip. about patronage. that is a real problem. this is especially affecting younger researchers, people who may be doing their first job. people wanting to get on and wanting to please. that is it, the getting an bit. one of the problems about the new safeguarding system they are doing, they might be up to protect them in they might be up to protect them in the sense against bosses or people who are paying them too much attention. the problem is an awful lot of these people and wanting to be mps themselves. what they don't wa nt to be mps themselves. what they don't want to do is somewhere in the future have a black mark against them. that will be a very difficult cultural change for the commons to make. we were talking through the evening about the development, the resignation of a minister, msp mark mcdonnell. the sunday post, that is understandably because of the scottish angle, the main story. showing this is notjust westminster but a wider issue. absolutely, and i dare say there will b

what's intriguing is that he has also referred himself to the police, mr pincher.eremy corbyn has said, where do we stand? i think again, we've got quite a difficult hierarchy of claims and sometimes this is shoved together, the newspapers want to fill the front pages. clearly there are some serious allegations to be investigated and beneath that level we've got frankly simply ministerial careers on the line. two investigations going on, mark garnier, perhaps people lost sight of that after the other allegations are being investigated by the cabinet office and tomorrow, damian green, his case is being investigated by the cabinet office, initially over allegations by the journalist kate maltby, which he in eyes but now we have bob quick, investigating damian green over unrelated matters nearly a decade ago, he is giving evidence as well. clearly he's not going to give a positive character reference to damian green. i think there will be some fear around westminster about what happens next, theresa may is trying to get on the front foot, tomorrow having a cross—party

in a statement mr pincher said, "if mr story has ever felt offended by anything i said then i can onlyography on the computer of one of theresa may's closest allies, damian green. mr green categorically denies the claims which he says are unscrupulous and untrue. let's begin, james millar, let's start if we can with the latest allegations about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary in the observer this morning. when you see the latest allegations, there are so many allegations, there are so many allegations to choose from, wordy start? this one is, yet, michael fallon has resigned after it was alleged he put his hand onjulia hartley brewer's knee. another person has said that he did something very similar with her. in both cases, the actual incident wasn't that big a deal but it's a pattern of behaviour and the whole problem is that people like, people, shall we say, do stuff like this to women. and it builds up and builds up women. and it builds up and builds up and that is the problem. it's not necessarily the specific allegations, though in some cases they are seriou

that was before mr pincher was an mp. good morning both of you. her story, it is incredibly harrowing actually and i think what this shows is that the debate all along hasn't been a witch—hunt. it hasn't been about trivial allegations. there have been serious things that have happened regarding political parties and i think what her case shows is that people need to have the confidence to come forward. she didn't, tried to make a complaint and it wasn't dealt with andi complaint and it wasn't dealt with and i think there is a fear that victims, if they don't have an independent grievance procedure, they are not going to be listened because there is party loyalty, or will sometimes trump these issues. you revealed in a newspaper article you wrote yesterday that it was michael fallon who directly lunged at your lips, as you put it, a few had lunch with him in 2003. you referenced that incident before but you have only just referenced that incident before but you have onlyjust now named him. why did you make that decision?m was 14 years ago, so when