Will Chris Pincher remain a Tory MP?

Chris Pincher remains a Tory MP this morning, but how long will that be the case? The Conservative deputy chief whip resigned from the government last night, following allegations that he groped two men at a private members’ club on Wednesday evening. 

In a letter to Boris Johnson, Pincher said he ‘drank far too much’ and ’embarrassed myself and other people’. But while the Prime Minister accepted Pincher’s resignation from the whips’ office, it is believed that Downing Street is reluctant to kick Pincher out of the party because of the speed with which he admitted what he’d done.

Pincher is a firm ally of the Prime Minister and said in his resignation letter that Boris Johnson would continue to have his ‘full support from the back benches’. Yet it seems hard to see how the government can continue to resist calls to launch an investigation into what happened at the Carlton Club in St James.