'Dinosaur behaviour' 
 
 Mr Garnier's former secretary, Caroline Edmondson, told the Mail on Sunday he had given her money to buy two vibrators at a Soho sex shop. Play Video 0:27 Gove makes 'clumsy' Harvey Weinstein joke on Today programme – audio 
 
 He told the presenter John Humphrys during an interview to mark the show’s 60th anniversary: “Sometimes I think coming into the studio with you, John, is a bit like going into Harvey Weinstein’s bedroom: you hope to emerge with your dignity intact.�? A Conservative spokesman said: “As the prime minister has made clear, any reports of sexual harassment are deeply concerning and any unwanted sexual behaviour is completely unacceptable in any walk of life, including politics. And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday condemned ‘warped and degrading’ behaviour at Westminster. Ms Edmondson said wealthy ex-banker Mr Garnier told her that one of the sex toys was for his wife, also called Caroline, while the other was for a female assistant in his Wyre Forest constituency office in the West Midlands. Garnier, a minister in the Department for International Trade under Liam Fox, was the most senior of several politicians named in reports on Sunday, as allegations of sexual harassment swirl around Westminster after the Harvey Weinstein scandal encouraged women in other professions to come forward. The Mail reported that Mr Garnier had admitted the claims, saying: "I'm not going to deny it, because I'm not going to be dishonest.  Image copyright PA 
 
 Conservative MP Mark Garnier is to face an investigation into whether he broke ministerial rules after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys. Mr Garnier said that the sex toys were bought after a Christmas lunch. It absolutely does not constitute harassment.’ 
 
 Ms Edmondson, pictured, said wealthy ex-banker Mr Garnier told her that one of the sex toys was for his wife, also called Caroline 
 
 He conceded that in the current post-Harvey Weinstein sexism climate it could ‘look like dinosaur behaviour’ but added: ‘In the context of the time, we got on fine.’ 
 
 Last night, Ms Edmondson hit back at Mr Garnier’s version of events and called him a ‘s**t’. Mr Riley has not commented and the BBC has not confirmed or denied the report. A year on from Trump’s pussy grab, nothing has changed | Eva Wiseman Read more 
 
 Edmondson said: “He suggested to me in a Commons bar one evening that we went shopping for sex toys in Soho. The next day, he said, “Come on, let’s do it.” 
 
 ‘He took me to Soho and gave me the money to buy two vibrators. He did not respond to requests from the BBC for a comment. He said one was for his wife and the other was for a woman who worked in his constituency office.’ 
 
 She added: ‘Another time in the bar he said to me in the hearing of others, “You are going nowhere, sugar t*ts.” 
 
 ‘He was worried I was going to go off and work for another MP. It was awful.’ 
 
 Shortly after the incidents in 2010, Ms Edmondson, who is married, stopped working for Mr Garnier. It comes as the prime minister wrote to Commons Speaker John Bercow, calling for a new contractually-binding grievance procedure to be set up for all MPs and their staff. 'Sexual chatter' 
 
 Meanwhile, former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb was reported by the Sunday Telegraph to have admitted sending "explicit" messages to a 19-year-old woman after a job interview at Westminster in 2013. It happened before a separate incident involving messages of a sexual nature sent to a different young woman during the EU referendum campaign. The married MP, who admitted meeting the woman "a few times," was quoted by the paper as saying he had been "foolish" but that there had been no sexual contact. “We exchanged messages which talked about sex but none of it was meant seriously,�? ‘We met for coffee a few times and had a glass of wine once at the Commons, but nothing more. I accept any kind of sexual chatter like this is totally wrong and I am sorry for my actions.’ 
 
 Mr Crabb has been trying to rebuild his marriage since similar claims last year. Referring to Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara, who has been suspended by the Labour Party while it investigates misogynistic and homophobic comments attributed to him, she said: "That language and that tone is unacceptable".
– The Harvey Weinstein case may even be making waves across the pond, with a Tory trade minister facing investigation for allegedly sexually harassing his ex-assistant. Among Caroline Edmondson's accusations, which Mark Garnier doesn't deny: asking her to buy sex toys for him and calling her "sugar tits," per the Guardian and the BBC. Garnier told the Daily Mail on Sunday that "I'm not going to be dishonest" and copped to asking Edmondson to purchase two vibrators, which he called "good-humored high jinks," after a 2010 holiday meal in Soho. He also admitted to making the "sugar tits" remark, but he said it was made during an "amusing conversation" about a popular British TV show in which the term is used to describe an attractive woman. "It absolutely does not constitute harassment," he insists, saying he and Edmondson later had a fight and now she's "disgruntled." Edmondson, who says the two vibrators were for Garnier's wife and another woman who worked in one of his offices (he wasn't yet a minister), replied to his response by calling him a "sh--." She also says the "amusing" comment was made to her at a bar and that Garnier's exact words were: "You are going nowhere, sugar tits." Edmondson's allegations, which the Cabinet Office will now look into, are part of a larger debate over how women are treated in UK government, as other politicians have also recently come under fire for inappropriate behavior. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells the BBC that the reports are "totally unacceptable if true," while PM Theresa May has vowed to crack down on such behaviors, noting current disciplinary procedures lack the "teeth" to deal with them. "It's grim. The whole culture has to change," a former Conservative Party minister says, per the Guardian.