Metro – Groping for answers

Metro – Groping for answers 

The Metro leads with a report that Boris Johnson’s team has struggled to defend him over claims he knew MP Chris Pincher had a reputation as a groper months before giving him the job of Tory whip.

One minister who was doing the media rounds on Sunday was Work and Pensions, Secretary Therese Coffey. Her comment – that the PM wasn’t aware of “specific allegations” against Mr Pincher in February, when he was made deputy chief whip, is picked up by the paper. 

Chris Pincher was suspended as a Tory MP last week over claims he groped two men, and now faces new allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back several years. He denies the claims.