mr pincher says, if mr storey has felt offended, then i can only apologise.ese 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 institutions. this is the childcare minister, mark mcdonald, in scotland, his quote on the basis that he feels his behaviour has not come up to standar

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