the paper claims the tamworth mp made an unwanted sexual pass at the former 0lympic rower and conservativery in 2001. in a statement mr pincher said, "if mr story has ever felt offended by anything i said then i can only apologise to him." the sunday times details allegations dating back to 2008, that police found pornography 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. so let's begin... a lot to wade through and use of the word advisedly. some serious some less so but clearly a big issue. and the sunday telegraph focusing on who knew what and how much information are we not hearing. this is the question that not only we are asking and the newspapers but what is being asked amongst mps. and the newspapers but what is being asked amongst mp5. the blips, who run the vertical parties, they run it through discipline and through that discipline, they know people's secrets. there has always been a degree of suspicion about the amount of power of the whips hold. a number of power of the wh

mr pincher, now the mp for tamworth, said if he had ever felt offended by anything he'd said, he canise. but again, it comes back to this whole thing about power and whips. because alex storey said he has decided to speak out because mr pincher was a government whip. politics is 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. th

they remind me of the political equivalent of the tamworth two.. of course it was michael gove who famously stabs boris johnson in the back, or the front. these two ultimately rub each other the wrong way and do not get on yet how all the back together again and yet how prescient, i think, because i think it gives us some sense of how this effort to undermine theresa may will go. apart from anything else, there is nobody ready tojump in and take her place and philip hammond, when we speak of him having insufficient energy, that isjust personal because he isjust so laid back. all of this feels quite personal. it is personal but also critical for what kind of brexit we have. it is personal but also critical for what kind of brexit we havem it is personal but also critical for what kind of brexit we have. it is, and we have the eu withdrawal bill coming through parliament this week and we seem to be completely stuck at the moment with the hard brexit supporters and those wanting a softer option and battling it out, unable to move forward and the idea

the paper claims the tamworth mp made an unwanted sexual pass at the former 0lympic rower and conservative anything i said then i can only apologise to him." the sunday times details allegations dating back to 2008, that police found pornography 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