British Conservative MP Neil Parish is resigning after admitting to twice watching pornography in the country's parliament.
The 65-year-old select committee chair said he first accidentally viewed porn after looking at tractors online, before then acting deliberately.
Mr Parish, who is a farmer by trade, said the second time was while he was sitting waiting to vote on the side of the House of Commons chamber, in a “moment of madness”.
He had vowed to continue as the MP for Tiverton and Honiton after it was revealed he was the politician seen watching porn by two Conservative colleagues, but bowed to pressure to resign on Saturday.
He said in an interview with BBC South West that he recognised the “furore” and “damage” he was causing his family and his constituency in Devon before deciding “it just wasn’t worth carrying on”.
“The situation was, 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,” Mr Parish said.
“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.”
