Boris Johnson’s latest excuse for appointing groping MP Chris Pincher as a chief whip is that he forgot he had been directly told an investigation was held into the Tory’s behaviour.
The lame reasoning came after a retired senior civil servant demolished the weekend claims that the Prime Minister knew nothing about the specific allegations made against the disgraced MP.
Lord McDonald, former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, took the unusual step of claiming Johnson was told “in person” about the lurid allegations surrounding Pincher’s groping behaviour three years ago.
