Pressure is mounting on the Conservative party to withdraw the whip from Chris Pincher following allegations he groped two men on a drunken night out
. Labour’s Yvette Cooper said that removing the whip from the former Conservative deputy whip needed to be the “first step that takes place” but did not call for his resignation as an MP.
Pincher, 52, resigned from his role as deputy chief whip on Thursday night after admitting he had “embarrassed myself and other people” following reports that he drunkenly groped two men at the Carlton Club in Piccadilly, London, on Wednesday.
Cooper told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We need to know the full truth about what has happened and what the allegations are.
“But I think that’s [removing the whip] the first step that needs to take place. And I think the idea that the Conservatives can try and simply dismiss this is just unacceptable.
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