Chris Pincher MP

Tory says that Tamworth MP is 'also in his own way, a victim'

To characterise the allegations as 'unsubstantiated' is therefore wrong." Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It isn't that simple," he said. There was a 'formal complaint. "Allegations were 'resolved' only in the sense that the investigation was completed. "Of course not, but it's an explanation.

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He said that Pincher poured him a whisky and whispered to him: “You’ll go far in the Conservative Party.” I think the right thing to do in the circumstances is for me to resign as Deputy Chief Whip. I owe it to you and the people I’ve caused upset to, to do this. I’ve embarrassed myself and other people which is the last thing I want to do and for that I apologise to you and those concerned. Pincher served as assistant whip and Comptroller of the Household in 2017, however he resigned from the position on 5 November 2017 and referred himself to the Conservative party’s complaints procedure and the police. When Boris Johnson took the position of Prime Minister in July 2019, Pincher was appointed the Minister of State for Europe and the Americas and, in the February 2020 reshuffle, he was then placed in the position as the Minister of State for Housing. The Conservative whip has now been suspended from Mr Pincher after an investigation was launched into the allegations, and Boris Johnson bowed to pressure after a complaint about the MP was made to Parliament’s watchdog that examines allegations of bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct.

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he carried on until I was able to move away." Mr Pincher apologised and promised not to repeat his behaviour, he said. A Tory activist has told the Daily Mail he may go to the police about an incident in 2021 in which he claims he was "touched up" by Mr Pincher. He told the newspaper he had met the MP to discuss getting a job in politics. A report in The Sunday Times also claims Mr Pincher attempted to undo the shirt of a party activist in his Tamworth constituency in 2019. A former parliamentary researcher told the Mail on Sunday that Mr Pincher threatened to report her to her boss when she tried to block his "lecherous" behaviour towards a young man at the Conservative Party conference in 2013. He claimed that when he was a party activist at the age of 26 he had gone back to the home of Mr Pincher, who was standing as a Tory candidate.

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There was a "formal complaint". Allegations were "resolved" only in the sense that the investigation was completed; Mr Pincher was not exonerated. I am conscious of the duty owed to the target of an investigation but I act out of my duty towards the victims. In the summer of 2019, shortly after he was appointed minister of state at the Foreign Office, a group of officials complained to me about Mr Pincher's behaviour.