Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly gets ogley in House of Commons as he is caught looking at saucy showgirls snap
The Huntingdon MP says he was scrolling through his Twitter feed when colleague Anna Soubry sent a tweet from the chamber, which showed him looking at 'showgirls playing chess'
A NAUGHTY Tory MP – called Jonathan Djanogly - was snapped checking out saucy snaps of semi-clad showgirls in the Commons chamber today.
Former Business Minister Anna Soubry accidentally outed her Tory colleague for ogling the 1958 photo of New York “showgirls playing chess” after taking a photo behind him.
She sent social media into a frenzy after posting a Tweet from the Chamber as Parliament returned after the election yesterday.
The foreground of the picture showed an MP in front of her engrossed in an image on his phone which seemed to be mainly flesh-coloured.
Twitter users who spotted it joked: “What’s the lad in front of you looking at Anna?”
Another heckled: “Who is the guy in front and what is he watching?”
Eagle-eyed internet experts quickly suggested it was the famous 1958 Gordon Parks photo “Showgirls Playing Chess”, taken backstage at the Latin Quarter nightclub in New York.
Mr Djanogly was later identified as the MP because he follows a Twitter account called “History Lovers Club”, which tweeted the Gordon Parks picture at 2.14pm, only minutes before Ms Soubry took the snap.
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The Huntingdon MP told The Sun yesterday: “I was scrolling through Twitter. I don’t have any recollection of any particular picture and I certainly don’t follow any tweets that I would call embarrassing.”
He added: “I was looking at my Twitter feed while sitting in the Chamber, but not during proceedings of the House.”
Earlier in the afternoon two other bespectacled male MPs were wrongly identified as the MP in question.
But new MP Alex Burghart confirmed: “As the Twitter has now mercifully established, it was not me.”
And the office of Jonathan Lord MP - who was also named on the social media website - confirmed it “certainly isn’t him”.
Today a mortified Ms Soubry insisted she had not meant to embarrass anyone when she took the snap – which she later deleted.
She told The Sun: “Along with several other members of the house, I took a photo and tweeted it out, on what is quite a historic day.
“I had no idea anyone was looking at anything on their phone in front of me.”
