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Torcuil Crichton

How Boris Johnson's excuses for giving Chris Pincher top job changed over six days

Chris Pincher MP dramatically quit as Tory deputy chief whip last week after disgracing himself with drunken gropes at two men in a Conservative private members’ club.

He was not suspended from the Conservative whip until Friday but continues as an independent MP for Tamworth while the complaints against him are investigated.

Over the weekend, details emerged in the press of further claims about alleged sexual advances to men – including two fellow Conservative MPs – over a period of years.

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