Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 5 July 2022

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1. PM ‘knew of whip complaint’

Boris Johnson was made aware of a formal complaint about Chris Pincher’s “inappropriate behaviour” while Pincher was a Foreign Office minister between 2019 and 2020, the BBC reported. The complaint has raised suspicions over what Johnson knew about the MP for Tamworth before he made him deputy chief whip in February. Last night, No. 10 insisted that the PM was unaware of any “specific allegations” being looked at about Pincher and that in the “absence of a formal complaint it would not be appropriate to stop the appointment”.

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