Former Conservative MP Aaron Bell carried out “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in the parliament bar, a watchdog has found.

Parliament’s standards watchdog found that the former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and without her consent” while in one of Parliament’s bars in December 2023.

The panel found that had Mr Bell still been an MP, the panel said it would have considered suspending him from Parliament “for a significant period”.