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Neil Parish was suspended as a Conservative lawmaker on Friday
after reporting himself to parliament's standards commissioner.
He has said he will continue as a member of parliament while an
investigation is carried out.
Asked by reporters whether he had opened something on his phone
in error, Parish said: "I did, but let the inquiry look at
that."
British media have reported that a female minister said she had
seen a male colleague viewing pornographic material while
sitting beside her in the Commons chamber and the same lawmaker
watching pornography during a committee hearing.
In an interview with The Times newspaper published on Saturday,
Parish's wife said she was not aware of her husband having done
anything similar before and that her husband was "a lovely
person".
"It was all very embarrassing," the newspaper quoted Sue Parish
as saying. "My breath was taken away, frankly."
"People shouldn't be looking at pornography. He would never just
sit there with people looking ... These ladies were quite right
to be as cross as they were because I was cross, too," she said.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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