Dominic Raab said it was “news to me” that Boris Johnson was allegedly directly told about a formal complaint against Chris Pincher, after claims by a former top official.
The Justice Secretary repeatedly suggested that Mr Johnson was unaware of any specific details over a complaint made in 2019 against Mr Pincher, who resigned from the Government after a series of allegations emerged last week.
Lord McDonald, the former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, said in a letter that Mr Johnson had been briefed “in person” about the investigation.
In his letter to the standards commissioner, Lord McDonald accused Downing Street of making claims in recent days that were “not true”.
“The original Number 10 line is not true and the modification is still not accurate,” he wrote. “Mr Johnson was briefed in person about the initiation and outcome of the investigation.
“There was a ‘formal complaint’. Allegations were ‘resolved’ only in the sense that the investigation was completed; Mr Pincher was not exonerated. To characterise the allegations as ‘unsubstantiated’ is therefore wrong.”
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