hoc Copyright: hoc Ministers said they would support the bill which was brought forward by Wera Hobhouse Image caption: Ministers said they would support the bill which was brought forward by Wera Hobhouse

Plans to create a new criminal offence of "upskirting" have been blown off course by a senior Conservative MP.

The government had signalled its support for plans to to make it against the law in England and Wales for someone to secretly take photographs under a victim's clothes.

Ministers said they would support a private member's bill being put forward by the Liberal Democrat MP, Wera Hobhouse.

The draft law was expected to be nodded through.

But when the title of the Voyeurism (Offences) Bill was read out, the Conservative MP, Sir Christopher Chope, shouted out "object".

That one word was enough to halt the bill's progress.