Prime Minister Boris Johnson was briefed about a formal investigation against Chris Pincher in 2019 when Pincher was a Foreign Office minister, Downing Street confirmed on Tuesday.
It comes after a former top civil servant questioned the accuracy of previous statements from Downing Street about Johnson’s awareness of a formal complaint against Pincher.
Pincher, MP for Tamworth, resigned from the whips office and had his Conservative Party membership suspended last week over the alleged groping of two male guests at a Conservative Party private members’ club on June 29.
The allegations have put Downing Street under pressure to explain why Pincher, who had resigned as a junior whip in November 2017 following a complaint that he made an unwanted pass at the former Olympic rower and Conservative candidate Alex Story, was given the job of deputy chief whip in February this year….