According to eyewitnesses, many of whom are MPs, Mr. Pinscher inappropriately touched two men at the bar of a well-known Conservative party club.
By Thanasis Gavos
The ousting of Conservative MP Chris Pinscher is being demanded by the opposition in Britain, after the inappropriate behavior of the 52-year-old MP in a party club bar on Wednesday night.
Mr Pinscher resigned as the Conservative Party’s deputy chief of staff yesterday, saying he had resigned after consuming too much alcohol in his resignation letter to Boris Johnson.
According to eyewitnesses, many of whom are MPs, Mr. Pinscher inappropriately touched two men at the bar of a well-known Conservative Party club, where he had previously attended an event of Cypriot interest (not related to the incident in question). ).
This is the second time that Mr. Pinscher has resigned from the Tories’ office of party discipline. The first was in 2017 when sexual harassment was revealed against Olympic rower and Tory activist Alex Story.
Mr Pinscher still holds the parliamentary seat, although even his Conservative colleagues have admitted in private that his seat in the House of Commons has probably become unsustainable.
The political implications of the case also affect Prime Minister Johnson, as according to British political editors he had been warned not to put Mr. Pinscher in the government reshuffle in the February reshuffle, precisely because of concerns about his behavior.
The Prime Minister is accused of ignoring the warnings and giving the post to Mr. Pinscher in exchange for his decisive role in the political operation known as “Save the Big Dog”, ie the attempt to protect Boris Johnson from party responsibilities. partygate.
At the same time, the British press today reminds that this is the fifth sex scandal involving a Conservative MP in the last quarter, a fact that has allowed the opposition to restore the slogan of a “slimy” and “corrupt” Conservative Party.
On April 2, David Warbarton was expelled from the party on charges of multiple sexual harassment; on April 29, the same was done with Neil Paris for watching porn on his cell phone during a parliamentary session; on conviction for sexual assault and on May 17 an unnamed Tory MP was ordered to abstain from parliament while allegations of rape against him are being investigated.
Three other cases of rape or sexual harassment by Conservative MPs were uncovered in 2021.
It is noted that from the summer of 2019 to the winter of 2020, Mr. Pinscher held the post of Undersecretary of State in the Johnson government, handling, among other things, issues related to Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.
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