After the scandal in the whips’ office, the Tory MPs who enabled the PM are finally realising he doesn’t care about them
“Pincher by name, pincher by nature.”
If Boris Johnson really did use those sniggering words of the man he then made deputy chief whip regardless, then they must surely now return to haunt him. For those words do something no previous Westminster scandal has quite done, and strip away some of the excuses surrounding sexual harassment and bad behaviour on the scale now emerging in politics.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
