UK lawmaker says 5 colleagues have sexually assaulted him

A British lawmaker says he has been sexually assaulted multiple times by other members of the British parliament. Chris Bryant, a left-wing politician from the United Kingdom Labor PartyHe did not identify his alleged attackers but he recounted some details of the events in his new book Code of conduct: why we need to fix parliament and how to do it. “Over the years, five male parliamentarians felt my butt was uninvited,” Bryant wrote in the book, excerpts from which were published in The New York Times. i newspaper. Bryant, who is gay, also wrote: “One of them, who didn’t come out, did it repeatedly. Another, who is still in the house and still does not accept that he is gay, pushed me against a wall and groped my crotch. He said another male lawmaker “rubbed up behind me” while queuing for a parliamentary vote, and that he saw the same individual “later making out with two men” in a Westminster Palace bar. “I know of other gay MPs and staff who have faced the same thing,” he wrote.