Mrs May’s families and children minister, Nadhim Zahawi, was ordered on Wednesday night to explain his attendance at the men-only fundraising event at which female "hostesses" were allegedly groped and propositioned.

Mr Zahawi was summoned to Downing Street to explain to the Chief Whip his version of events surrounding the gala.

But Mrs May, speaking in Davos, Switzerland, as she attended the World Economic Forum, refused to directly criticise Mr Zahawi as she said the Government would continue to fight to “erase and eradicate” misogyny.

The Prime Minister said she was “frankly appalled” when she read the report of the Presidents Club event.

Once again politicians and media luvvies show how out of touch with reality they are. The girls being manhandled at the dinner were "Hostesses," which has long been a euphemism for "ladies of negotiable affection," hired for the one off fee of £200 to be 'nice' to the punters. It has always gone on, a modern manifestation of The Oldest Profession.

Is anyone really stupid enough to fall for this latest instance of The Left manufacturing fake news. I notice the complaints have not come from the hostesses themselves but a couple of 'investigative reporters' who wormed their way into the event.

Reports of the Presidents Club event said 130 "tall, thin and pretty" women played host to some of the UK's richest businessmen.

It was claimed that at the dinner some women were groped and plied with alcohol.

The Presidents Club's charity was shut down in the wake of the reports.

Once again politicians and media luvvies show how out of touch with reality they are. The girls being manhandled at the dinner were "Hostesses," which has long been a euphemism for "ladies of negotiable affection," hired for the one off fee of £200 to be 'nice' to the punters. It has always gone on, a modern manifestation of The Oldest Profession.

Is anyone really stupid enough to fall for this latest instance of The Left manufacturing fake news. I notice the complaints have not come from the hostesses themselves but a couple of 'undercover investigative reporters' who wormed their way into the event. Why is it always well paid feminist journalists who create the phoney outrage. The problem is that the politicos agree with them, enact some stupid changes to equality laws and then send the (thought) police out on the streets (or these days, more likely, their facebook account) to arrest any transgressors of these newly hatched mores. Anyone who has read the 2010 "Equalities Act" pushed through by Hattie Harperson in the dying days of the Labour government will recognise it as one of the most bigited travesties ever codified into law.

Browsing around the internet comment threads I noted many people were comparing this story with what goes on at all-female hen nights and gatherings, where male 'hostesses' are not hired but waiters and barmen are considered fair game, ans male strippers have some very lurid tales to tell.

Clavdia Chauchat commented in the thread under a report of the kerfuffle:

I've done quite a few of these 'events' when I was funding my uni course. The worst ones are the motor racing and exhibition lot. What I can say is that these people making all this fuss don't speak for me. It always seems to be the ones who know nothing about the girls or the job or the money, that are the ones making all the fuss. Why can't they just sort their own lives out ad leave me and my friends out of it. They don't speak for everybody, just for themselves and what they think people SHOULD behave like. They are just so interfering. I'm sick of being treated like an idiot when it's clear that it's them who are the idiots. They're really bossy as well. Sometimes you just say you agree with them just to get them off your back.