Parliamentary staffer was ‘broken’ after alleged gropes

A Parliamentary worker appeared ‘broken’ when she told a colleague she was sexually assaulted by a former Tory MP, a court heard. The woman, in her 20s, alleges Charlie Elphicke groped her twice in the Palace of Westminster in 2016. She claims the former Dover MP, 49, shoved his hand down her bra and tried to pull her onto his lap before touching the top of her thigh on a separate occasion. The woman met a friend at the Sports…