Surprisingly, Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges claims that PM Johnson, knowing Tory MP Christopher Pincher to be the subject of multiple allegations of sexual assault, gave Pincher responsibility for dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct by Tory MPs.
> Several months ago a senior staffer to a Conservative MP approached a Minister and claimed they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their employer.
> What should they do about it, they asked? ‘The Minister said I should go and speak to Chris Pincher,’ the adviser told me, ‘because he was the person in the whips’ office who had responsibility for dealing with sexual complaints.’
> . . . when [Pincher] was finally exposed for engaging in sexual impropriety himself, the Prime Minister fought to protect him for almost 24 hours by arguing he should retain the Conservative Party whip.
> And [the] Prime Minister constructed a tissue of lies about what he personally knew about the perpetrator, what he was told, and when he was told it.
> . . . The Pincher case stinks. And the responsibility for that rests with Boris Johnson.
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Surprisingly, Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges claims that PM Johnson, knowing Tory MP Christopher Pincher to be the subject of multiple allegations of sexual assault, gave Pincher responsibility for dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct by Tory MPs.
> Several months ago a senior staffer to a Conservative MP approached a Minister and claimed they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their employer.
> What should they do about it, they asked? ‘The Minister said I should go and speak to Chris Pincher,’ the adviser told me, ‘because he was the person in the whips’ office who had responsibility for dealing with sexual complaints.’
> . . . when [Pincher] was finally exposed for engaging in sexual impropriety himself, the Prime Minister fought to protect him for almost 24 hours by arguing he should retain the Conservative Party whip.
> And [the] Prime Minister constructed a tissue of lies about what he personally knew about the perpetrator, what he was told, and when he was told it.
> . . . The Pincher case stinks. And the responsibility for that rests with Boris Johnson.
Strong stuff from an outlet last seen in this sub decrying Johnson critics as [“narcissists, pygmies and cowards”](https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/188609/the-tory-narcissists-pygmies-and-cowards-hellbent-on-handing-starmer-the-keys-to-no10).