UK premier is under pressure to explain what he knew and when after a string of allegations surfaced
Boris Johnson is under pressure to explain what he knew and when after a string of allegations surfaced at the weekend about the past sexual behaviour of Chris Pincher, the Conservative MP who quit last week as one of the prime minister’s enforcers, citing his own drunken antics.
The opposition Labour Party late on Sunday ratcheted up the pressure with a letter to the prime minister demanding to know if he was aware of complaints about Pincher before promoting him. “Only Boris Johnson could have looked at this guy’s record and thought, ‘he deserves a promotion,’” Labour chair Anneliese Dodds, the author of the letter, said in a statement.
Normally Tory-backing papers turned on Johnson at the weekend, with the Sunday Telegraph’s cover story headlined “PM ‘turned blind eye to sex pest warnings’” and the Mail on Sunday splashing on its front page that the premier “knew all about” allegations against Pincher two years ago. Johnson’s office on Sunday referred Bloomberg to comments made on Friday by his spokesperson, Jamie Davies, that the premier was not aware of “specific allegations” against Pincher at the time of his appointment, and with no “formal” complaints made, there “was no basis” to stop it.
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