The bill had cross-party support and was expected to pass into law. He appears to have offered no explanation for his action He is the MP for Christchurch in Dorset.
Maybe make sure you wear trousers in Christchurch, ladies!
“Sir Christopher Chope has a reputation for derailing private members’ bills – just as he did on Thursday when he shouted “object!” to one that would have made upskirting a sexual offence.
The Christchurch MP also used the Commons session on Friday to delay another government-backed bill, which would make it an offence to attack police dogs or horses, or prison officer dogs.
In Parliament the rules mean it only requires one MP to shout “object” to block a bill’s progress once time for debate has concluded at 2.30pm on a Friday.
His actions have been widely criticised, with his Conservative colleagues taking to WhatsApp to vent their frustrations with one calling him a “total irrelevance and yesterday’s guy”.
So who is he?
Chope, who was born in Putney, has been an MP for over 25 years. He was educated at the prestigious Marlborough College, before attending Queen’s College at the University of St Andrews. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1972.
Chope, a eurosceptic, has held various positions within the Conservative party. He has been MP for Christchurch since 1997 but prior to that he was the MP for Southampton Itchen between 1983 and 1992 before losing his seat to Labour.
His decision to block the upskirting bill is not the first time he has hit the headlines.
In 2009 the father-of-two was caught up in the expenses scandal when it was revealed that he had claimed £136,992 in parliamentary expenses, including £881 to repair a sofa.
That same year, he called for the minimum wage to be abolished, arguing that it would decrease unemployment.
He came under fire again in 2013 for referring to some of the staff in the House of Commons as “servants”.
Later that year he voted against the legislation for same-sex marriage.
Also that year, he was one of four MPs who camped outside an office in Parliament for four nights in order to highjack an obscure parliamentary procedure to table 42 bills, which formed what they called an “Alternative Queen’s Speech”.
Among the proposals were the reintroduction of the death penalty and conscription, privatising the BBC and banning the burka in public places.
They also wanted to scrap wind farm subsidies, end the ringfence for foreign aid spending and rename the late August Bank Holiday “Margaret Thatcher Day”.
In 2014 Chope along with six other Conservative MPs voted against the Equal Pay (Transparency) Bill.
He is known for blocking and filibustering of bills including raising an eleventh-hour objection to the Hillsborough debate taking place, objecting to the second reading of the Alan Turing Bill to grant him a pardon and repeatedly blocking a bill that would ban the use of wild animals in circus performances.
Chope, a private landlord, filibustered a bill which had cross party support intended to make revenge evictions an offence
In 2015, joined fellow Tory MPs Philip Davies and David Nuttall in extended speeches, known as a filibuster, against a private member’s bill that would have placed restrictions on hospital parking charges for carers, causing the bill to run out of time.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/christopher-chope-upskirting-bill_uk_5b23e1e1e4b0a0a5277b1fa6
East Devon Watch 
Q: What do Christopher Chope and Hugo Swire have in common?
A: Nothing – except of course that …
1. Both are members of the Nasty Party supporting Nasty Policies and brown-nosing furiously in the hope of (re)gaining a ministerial job.
2. Both employ their wives in their parliamentary offices for unspecified tasks for an unspecified number of working hours but paying a salary appropriate for a full time administrator.
3. Both voted against an amendment in April 2017 which would have required the government to provide an analysis of Brexit’s impact on the Health Service.
4. Both are members of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting – i.e. the both support blood sports.
5. Both are at a minimum complicit in the demise and impending death of the NHS.
6. Both voted against the proposal to let in child refugees in April 2016.
7.Both voted to retain the public sector pay cap in June 2017.
8. Both voted to take us into the Iraq war in 2003.
9. Both voted against an amendment which would have allowed civil servants to provide evidence in child abuse enquiries.
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Given his well-known history on voting, especially Private Members Bills, isn’t it a bit worrying that none of his party thought to ensure that he was elsewhere when it came to this vote? Not a very forward thinking party are the nasty party.
(Did anyone else find themselves wondering who the culprit was when the failure of the bill was made known? Knighted Tory, seaside constituency, outrageous expenses claims. Became clearer when it said he left St Andrews with a degree rather than ‘attended’ St Andrews.)
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