Damian Green is a senior Conservative MP and as First Secretary of State is Theresa May's second in command.
In 2008 his office was raided and his PCs inspected as part of a police investigation into government leaks. It is alleged that thousands of legal porn images were found on the computer.
The allegations were originally made some months ago by a retired detective constable and were dismissed at the time as an invention and a political smear. The plot thickened last month when Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner between 2009-11, said he was briefed about the claims but regarded them as a "side issue".
There has been some suggestion that someone else had used to computer to access the porn but it is now claimed that timestamps on emails and browsing history shows that if it was someone other than Damian Green then they were logged into his computer as him and sending emails as him at the same time as browsing the porn.
IMO if anyone who worked for me was using their work computer to access porn during office hours then at best they'd have a written warning - most likely that would constitute gross misconduct and result in their dismissal - I think that's fairly typical.
The Conservatives are instead defending the man. David Davis is warning that Green should not be sacked - but then again Double-D only works three days a week and so would have plenty of opportunity to look at porn in his own time.
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There is no suggestion that any of the images were illegal, just that surfing porn at work is bad and then lying about it isn't a good idea either.
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