Boris Johnson is under pressure to explain his leniency towards a former Tory minister after fresh groping allegations were made
BORIS Johnson is under increasing pressure to explain his leniency towards a former Tory minister afterSix new claims have been made, with Chris Pincher’s latest accuser saying he was “shell-shocked” by the decision not to kick the Tamworth MP out of the parliamentary party immediately.deputy chief whip after being accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members’ club in London this week.
Fresh allegations have been reported in the Independent, the Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times – including claims Pincher made unwanted advances to male MPs in a bar in parliament and in his own parliamentary office. No official complaints have been lodged. The Sunday Times alleged he made unwanted passes at two Conservative MPs in 2017 and 2018, after his first resignation as a whip over claims he made unwanted advances to Olympic rower and Conservative candidate Alex Story.
The man told the Sunday Times that he initially did not want to report the incident, thinking “this is something that happens in“But I am angered by the fact that I should feel like that, and even more angry by the way No 10 have dealt with it . . . I am furious. I know it sounds really silly but I felt shell-shocked when I found out they were initially going to let him keep the whip,” he added.
Johnson initially resisted calls to remove the whip until Parliament’s Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme launched an investigation on Friday.
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