“If you have 650 members of parliament in a very busy area, you will get people to cross the line,” the Conservative MP told GB News, referring to poker. “I do not think there is necessarily a huge culture [of that behaviour] here, but it must be dealt with and dealt with seriously, and I think that is what the whips will do in our whip office. “ After a 12-year parliamentary career in which the Tiverton and Honiton lawmaker has seldom – if ever – become a national figure, he is now at the center of a political storm after it was revealed on Friday that Tories’s whip had been removed from him for accusations. A farmer and former member of the European Parliament for the South West of England, and a former adviser, Paris was part of the 2010 parliamentary acceptance when he won what has become an increasingly secure Tory seat. Since then, he has avoided controversy and tends to count his words relatively carefully in media appearances and has served since 2015 as chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Selection Committee (Efra). “You will make people cross the line.” Neil Parish, who was stripped of his whip after being accused of watching pornography in the Commons, spoke to Darren McCaffrey earlier this week and denied there was a cultural problem in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/bHHQedHpdo GB News (@GBNEWS) April 29, 2022 One of the few areas in which he has gone against his party grain was his opposition to rewilding, which he opposes despite being a position supported by Boris Johnson himself and most of the party. A Tory source with previous experience working with him on the Efra committee – to which Parish returned as chairman on successive terms – described him as a quiet and hard worker. “He would not be at the top of my list of suspects,” they said, adding that 65-year-old Paris was “rather boring, in fact.” Paris was a farmer in Somerset’s hometown and still lives on the family farm, according to a profile on his website that says he is married and has two children and two grandchildren. The MP employs his wife as a junior secretary, according to his register of interests, which also represents interests from the family farm in Somerset. Subscribe to the First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7 p.m. BST The MP’s website also cites “African politics” as among his other interests, adding that the ban on his re-entry to Zimbabwe following criticism of Robert Mugabe’s regime as an election observer has remained in place to this day. The lawmaker said this week that he was also wearing “as an honor” the fact that he was among more than 280 lawmakers who had been “ratified” by Russia. Parish parliamentary vote records, meanwhile, show that he tended – in the vast majority of cases – in the same direction as Tory’s colleagues, although he was among those who supported the United States’s stay during the 2016 referendum. Basil in the EU. In the past, Parish had gained some fanfare among animal welfare activists when he tried to prevent the government from signing post-Brexit trade agreements that would have underestimated animal welfare. Nevertheless, nature activists reacted to the latest news by saying they hoped he would be replaced on the committee by someone who was more in favor of nature restoration than Parish, who usually takes the side of landowners and farmers in discussions from new.
