Boris Johnson facing urgent Commons question on claims he 'lied' over Chris Pincher conduct

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Boris Johnson is facing urgent questions in parliament over what he knew about the behaviour of disgraced Tory MP Chris Pincher before appointing him as whip.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has been granted an urgent question in the Commons on the Pincher row on Tuesday afternoon.

She will ask Cabinet Office Minister Michael Ellis to “make a statement on the mechanisms for upholding standards in public life” after a bombshell claim from a former top civil servant that Downing Street was not being honest.READ MORE:GMB's Susanna Reid dismantles Tory minister Dominic Raab in car crash interviewLord McDonald, former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, said that he would “dispute” No10’s version that issues with Pincher’s conduct at the department had been “resolved” and confirmed that the complaint made against him was upheld.He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I dispute the use of the word resolved.

For me resolved is too positive a word. It sounds as though a happy and agreed conclusion was reached.“No, the complaint was upheld.