As the row over Lord Rennard continues with no signs of an apology, Guido Fawkes reporter Alex Wickham has spoken out to insist that men are also victims of harassment in the profession.
In this week’s Spectator, Wickham recalls gropes and propositions from male MPs typically after an evening at Parliament’s Strangers’ Bar. “If things have gone well at Strangers’, it is on to the downmarket Players piano bar in Charing Cross for the MPs and their new friends,” he writes. “I know one Honourable Member who keeps a leather jacket and skin-tight leather trousers in his office in case he needs something more appropriate to wear.”
Wickham received attention from several MPs but has mercifully maintained discretion on identities. “It was there (at Players) that one Tory, a headline name, decided to run his hand up my thigh as the pianist played songs from Cabaret. Come for the mediocre musical entertainment, stay for the wandering hands of Westminster’s campest.”
The Londoner prefers to be seduced to the strains of Sondheim.
