Many of the UK’s parliamentarians see business travel as an opportunity to “make the most of it”
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A number of British MPs and high-ranking officials used state-sponsored trips abroad for dubious entertainment and excessive drinking.
“As part of an ongoing investigation, we have spoken to more than a dozen government officials and lawmakers in the UK and abroad who have substantiated allegations of drunken, indecent or sexual behavior by some MPs and civil servants during such travel,” Politico said.
According to the publication, one of the deputies, during a trip abroad, asked the hotel owner for the nearest brothel, and after finishing the official visit, he stayed in the country to continue communicating with the sex workers, according to what they say. , In private.
Another official, a representative of the Labor Party, constantly showed increased interest in “Russian girls.”
Many of the UK’s parliamentarians see business travel as an opportunity to “get away for the most part”.
They consider themselves celebrities. At lunchtime they drink and act arrogant. This is rude behaviour,” a former member of the kingdom’s parliament commented on the behavior of British MPs.