The Metropolitan Police have announced they will not investigate an allegation of sexual assault reported by a female Labour MP against a ‘Popular’ Labour frontbench MP, “at the victim’s request”.
Tortoise first reported that a female Labour MP claimed she had been sexually assaulted by a male shadow minister.
Yesterday, the BBC was told that the female MP reported the incident to the Met Police and to Labour whips, with Labour claiming that the whips urged her to make a formal complaint to the party.
However, Tortoise reported that she “felt his popularity within the party would stand against her”.
The Metropolitan Police told the BBC they received a report in March of this year that a woman was sexually assaulted by a politician in July 2021, with the incident allegedly taking place after a summer party in London.
The Met said: “At the victim’s request, the incident will not now be investigated at this time,” adding that enquiries were at an “assessment stage” and a formal investigation hadn’t been launched.
The Met refused to identify either MP, leaving mystery to surround the case and members of the public taking to social media to question why the female MP would seemingly put the protection of the reputation of her party above bringing a potential sexual abuser of women to justice.
Labour told the BBC they had not been contacted by the Met, nor received a formal complaint.
A party spokesman said: “We take any allegations of this sort very seriously and would always encourage individuals to go to the parliamentary process, the Labour Party process or the police.
On Thursday, Politico revealed an internal investigation had concluded that a senior Labour aide had sexually groped a colleague.
According to Politico, the senior Labour aide – an advisor to a well-known frontbench Labour MP – was alleged to have groped a female intern 20 years younger than him, with the complaint being upheld by two separate investigations. The adviser was shockingly allowed to keep his job, however has now resigned.
Once again, the Labour Party appear to be attempting to cover up the incident and hide full details from the media and general public.
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