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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

‘He needs to resign’: Chris Pincher’s constituents on their disgraced MP

The centre of Tamworth in Staffordshire
The centre of Tamworth in Staffordshire, where a petition has been started to remove the local MP, Christopher Pincher. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

It has been nearly four weeks since claims first emerged that Christopher Pincher had drunkenly groped two men at a private members’ club in London’s Piccadilly.

The revelation, and the suggestion that the prime minister knew about similar allegations against Pincher before appointing him deputy chief whip, proved the straw that broke the camel’s back for Boris Johnson’s scandal-ridden premiership.

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