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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Disgraced Devon MP Neil Parish may have broken the law, Labour party claims - Devon Live

A disgraced Devon MP who admitted watching pornography in the House of Commons may have broken the law, a top Labour MP has claimed. Neil Parish resigned as MP for Tiverton on Saturday April 30 after admitting he had watched porn not just once but twice in Parliament, even though the first time he claims he was trying to look at tractors instead.

The shamed Westcountry MP has been widely ridiculed on social media for confusing tractors with porn actors even though his wife said she was standing by him. Mr Parish told the BBC : “Funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at, so I did get into another website with sort of a very similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn't have done. The CLAAS Dominator is described as an “'icon among combine harvesters.'

"My crime, my most biggest crime, is that on another occasion I went in a second time, and that was deliberate. That was sitting waiting to vote on the side of the chamber."

As reported by The Mirror, the Shadow minister for safeguarding, Jess Phillips has accused the Tory MP of breaking the law of the land by viewing adult material - the kinky stuff not the farm equipment - in public. In an interview with The Observer, she said that Mr Parish may have broken the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981.

The act says: "If any indecent matter is publicly displayed, the person making the display and any person causing or permitting the display to be made shall be guilty of an offence. Any matter which is...



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