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Conservative Deputy Leader Chris Pincher has resigned following allegations of touching two men while he was drunk.
In a resignation letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he said he had “embarrassed himself and others” by drinking too much at the party’s private club.
The alleged incident reportedly took place Wednesday night at the Carlton Club in Piccadilly, London.
Tamworth MP said in his resignation letter: “Last night I drank too much. I have embarrassed myself and other people, which is the last thing I want to do and for that I apologize to you. and with stakeholders “.
Following her resignation, Labor leader Angela Rayner criticized the Conservatives and claimed members were “stuffed in shame”.
“The Conservative party is so immersed in scandal and scandal that it is totally unable to meet the challenges facing the British people,” the Labor leader said.
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The prime minister’s promise of military spending in 2030 is “weak,” high-level conservatives say
Boris Johnson tried to heal a cabinet fracture by promising to increase defense spending to 2.5 per cent of UK economic output by the end of the decade.
The prime minister concluded the NATO summit in Madrid with a promise that could add more than £ 55bn to military budgets this decade, following requests from Ben Wallace for more money.
Defense committee chairman Tobias Ellwood, MP, for spending 3% of GDP on defense, said Johnson’s commitment at the end of the decade was “too little too late,” noting the current budget cuts planned by reduce 10,000 army soldiers. .
Julian Lewis, chairman of the intelligence and security committee, noted that the UK spent between 4.1% and 5.5% of GDP on defense during the 1980s, the last decade of the Cold War.
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Conservative conspirators against Johnson urged not to “put a gun to the prime minister’s head”
Downing Street has warned Conservative MPs that they will “put a gun to the head” of every future Conservative prime minister if they change the rules of leadership to try to oust Boris Johnson.
The warning came as supporters of the prime minister tried to curb the efforts of rebel MPs to advance the date of a possible second vote of censure on Mr. Johnson.
A cabinet minister told The Independent that critics of the prime minister should be aware that the electoral landscape would be very different from the likely date of the next general election in 2024, with economic issues instead of Partygate at the helm of the mind of voters.
Andrew Woodcock and Adam Forrest report.
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Pincher’s resignation shows Conservatives are “embarrassed,” Labor says
Mr Pincher, who was appointed to the post last February to bolster party discipline, resigned after an incident of intoxication in which he said he “embarrassed myself and others”.
“Boris Johnson has serious questions to answer about why Chris Pincher was given this role in the first place and how he can remain a Conservative MP,” Rayner said.
“The Conservative Party is so immersed in scandal and scandal that it is totally unable to meet the challenges facing the British people.
“Conservative MPs who continue to prop up this prime minister’s paralyzed administration must grow a backbone and tell him the party is over.”
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Chris Pincher resigns for “tapas” claims.
Conservative Deputy Vice President Chris Pincher has resigned after he is said to have palpated two men while he was drunk.
In a resignation letter sent to Boris Johnson, he said he had “embarrassed himself and others” by drinking too much in the private club of Conservative Party members.
Tamworth MP said in his resignation letter: “Last night I drank too much. I have embarrassed myself and other people, which is the last thing I want to do and for that I apologize to you. and with stakeholders.
“I think what needs to be done in these circumstances is for him to resign as deputy director. I owe it to you and the people I have caused displeasure to do this.”
Metropolitan Police said they were unaware of any calls to the site where the alleged incident took place and that there was no record in their systems of any related report filed Thursday.
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