He claimed in an interview with the Corporation that the first time he viewed pornography in the Chamber was accidental when he had been searching on his phone for tractors.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nParish told the BBC that the incident was a ‘moment of madness’ and that ‘he was not proud of what [he] was doing’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He did admit that the second time he viewed the content, that it was deliberate.<\/p>\n
He was suspended by the\u00a0Conservatives\u00a0on Friday under investigation.<\/p>\n
His resignation will trigger a by-election in the South West seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon.<\/p>\n
In an interview with BBC South West, he said: ‘The situation was that – funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at.<\/p>\n
‘I did get into another website that had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn’t have done.<\/p>\n
‘But my crime – biggest crime – is that on another occasion I went in a second time.”That was deliberate… that was sitting waiting to vote on the side of the chamber.<\/p>\n
‘What I did was absolutely wrong.’<\/p>\n
He appeared outside his local Conservative association to make the announcement of his resignation.<\/p>\n
He added: ‘I was wrong, I was stupid, I lost sense of mind.’<\/p>\n
The resignation follows Parish’s wife, Sue Parish, promising to stand by her husband in an interview with the Times.<\/p>\n
Ms Parish, said the incident was ‘very embarrassing’ but added that\u00a0‘if you were mad with every man who looked at pornography, you would not have many wives in the world.’<\/p>\n
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