It is very tempting to use any pretext to drive a minister in a government you hate out of office and out of parliament. However, consider the precedent which would be set. Any member with iffy (including politically dubious as well as sexual material) images on his office computer could be scapegoated. It could lead to vigilante groups organised by opposing whips, barging into suspects' offices in the hope of seeing something they could feed to the media.
The history of the Green affair as laid out in this Guardian article.
Two senior police officers have now condemned the retired policemen and even suggested they could be prosecuted.
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