Green party byelection winner says ‘you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes’
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When Hannah Spencer spoke of her shock that in Westminster “you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes”, she may not have expected such a lively response.
The Green party MP, who won the Gorton and Denton byelection in February, made the comments in an interview with the Joe website, saying she was “really uneasy” about the drinking culture in parliament.
She added that there had been cases of “questionable and dangerous behaviour” by staff and potentially some MPs because of the “unprofessional” culture of drinking.
