Boris Johnson was unaware of specific claims about Chris Pincher, minister says
Mr Pincher, who remains an independent MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire, quit as Tory deputy chief whip after he was accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members' club in London on Wednesday.
On Sunday, Labour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky the party had been motivated by "what is politically expedient over what is right". Meanwhile, No 10 has not denied a claim by Mr Johnson's former chief aide, Dominic Cummings, that the PM referred to the former deputy chief whip as "Pincher by name, pincher by nature" before appointing him.
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