Neil Parish has been named as the MP alleged to have been watching pornography in the Commons chamber.
A spokesperson for the Tory chief whip has said Parish has had the Conservative whip suspended while he is being investigated.
A spokeswoman for Chris Heaton-Harris said: “Having spoken to the chief whip this afternoon, Neil Parish MP is reporting himself to the standards committee of the House of Commons.
“Mr Parish has been suspended from the Conservative whip pending the outcome of that investigation.”
Parish, a farmer from Somerset who chairs the rural affairs select committee of MPs, was elected to the safe Devon seat of Tiverton and Honiton in 2010 after a decade in the European Parliament as an MEP.
Labour said the Tories had known about Parish’s alleged conduct for days, but had done nothing about it.
Thangam Debbonaire, Labour’s shadow leader of the House of Commons, said: “The Conservatives knew for days about the disgusting behaviour of one of their MPs and tried to cover it up.
“From the Owen Paterson scandal to their failure to act against their paedophile MP Imran Ahmad Khan, this is a government rotting from the head down. Britain deserves better.”
Earlier in the week, Parish appeared on GB News before his name was made public, where he was asked about the incident.
He told the channel: “You are going to get people that step over the line.”
