The children’s minister Will Quince has become the latest Conservative MP to resign from his government role.
Quince tweeted this morning it was with “great sadness and regret that I feel that I have no choice” but to resign.
He had “accepted and repeated … assurances in good faith” that the prime minister Boris Johnson was unaware of allegations relating to Chris Pincher before appointing him as deputy whip.
Former foreign office permanent secretary Simon McDonald later published a letter making clear Johnson knew about a previous investigation into Pincher, who quit last week over allegations of groping.
