The 65-year-old conservative lawmaker had a “moment of madness,” he said, when he searched for X-rated content at a time of inactivity while waiting for a vote. The former farmer said he first encountered the obscure online sex work – which appears to be related to a sexual encounter – by accident while looking at a tractor on his mobile phone – and then went to a site with a “very similar name”, the Sunday Times London reported. The House of Commons in which Paris allegedly watched porn on his phone.AP Parish said he watched the NSFW video “for a while, something I should not have done”. But in the second case, the married father of two admitted to deliberately searching for porn – and was caught red-handed by two female MPs, who filed a formal complaint. Paris said it had apologized “completely” to lawmakers, insisting “it was not my intention to intimidate them”. His resignation came less than 24 hours after he said he would refuse to step down unless convicted. But a chorus of conservative colleagues said the opposite – fearing a backlash from voters ahead of Thursday’s local elections. “It was difficult to see how he could return, given the public report,” said one lawmaker.
