Therese Coffey, the Work and Pensions Secretary was wheeled out yesterday to peddle the party line - that Johnson was totally unaware of what Pincher was like.
Newspapers, commentators, Tory and Opposition MPs all seemed unconvinced and calling that out as yet another lie.
Even Coffey didn’t look very convinced by the words coming out of her own mouth. Being an ambitious Conservative Minister must be the worst job in the country at the moment, I almost felt sorry for her.
// She said she believes 'to the best of my knowledge' that Boris Johnson was not aware of specific allegations about Pincher before appointing him to the whips office. She also confirmed she had not spoken to him about what he knew before coming on television. //
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10977413/Chris-Pinchers-accuser-describes-groped-posh-members-club-PM-faces-pressure.html