Russell Brand should face a criminal investigation over rape and sexual assault allegations, a Conservative MP has said.

Caroline Nokes, chairwoman of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said claims that the comedian attacked four

These allegations are incredibly shocking and criminal. 

And I would very much hope that complaints will be made both to the Metropolitan Police and indeed in the States, because this merits and needs a criminal investigation, because for too long we have seen men - and the perpetrators of these sorts of crimes are almost invariably men - not being held to account for their behaviours and their actions.” 

women in the UK and US were a “police matter”.