Matheson’s departure highlights yet more inaction by Keir Starmer, after finding of ‘threatening’, ‘intimidating’ and ‘entirely non-consensual’ abuse sees Labour right-winger step down following parliamentary suspension
Chester MP Christian Matheson has resigned as a Labour MP after being suspended by Parliament after a panel found he had committed ‘serious’ and ‘threatening’ sexual misconduct toward a junior staffer. The panel concluded that:
The evidence confirms that his actions were entirely non-consensual, as well as threatening, intimidating, undermining and humiliating for the complainant.
In a statement announcing his resignation, Matheson admitted a ‘minor breach’ of the parliamentary code, but claimed his ‘honest and open approach’ had led to him being found guilty of ‘several allegations I know to be untrue’. His departure triggers a by-election in the City of Chester constituency.
Keir Starmer did not suspend Matheson pending the outcome of the panel’s investigation. The Labour leader is himself the subject of a formal complaint from a whistleblower that he ignored her ‘protected disclosures’ about abuse of vulnerable domestic violence victims by the lover of a right-wing MP and covered up the abuse, even after she won her unfair dismissal case against the MP – and he failed to act on clear evidence of abuse and rigging against Muslim MP Apsana Begum despite a professional advocate for domestic violence victims warning that the party was continuing the domestic abuse she had suffered.
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