{"id":2381,"date":"2022-07-05T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/05\/chris-pincher-pm-was-briefed-says-simon-mcdonald\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T09:35:05","slug":"chris-pincher-pm-was-briefed-says-simon-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pincher: PM was briefed says Simon McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">No 10 did not tell the truth when it said the PM was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher&#8217;s behaviour, an ex-civil servant in the Foreign Office has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Simon McDonald said Boris Johnson had been &#8220;briefed in person&#8221; about an investigation into Mr Pincher, then a Foreign Office minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Pincher, the MP for Tamworth, was suspended as a Conservative Party MP last week over allegations he groped two men at a private members&#8217; club in London. He says he is seeking professional medical support and has no intention of resigning as an MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In a strongly-worded letter to the parliamentary standards commissioner, Sir Simon has disputed No 10&#8217;s version of events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-62048638?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] No 10 did not tell the truth when it said the PM was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher&#8217;s behaviour, an ex-civil servant in the Foreign Office has &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}