When Pincher resigned last week as deputy chief whip, a key position in enforcing party discipline, he told the prime minister that he “drank far too much” the previous night and had “embarrassed myself and other people.”
2 key U.K. Cabinet ministers quit Boris Johnson's government
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But he said he would remain as a Conservative lawmaker and continue to support Johnson from the back benches of Parliament.
U.K. government faces new boozy scandal as deputy whip quits
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