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Boris Johnson faces mounting questions about what he knew and when about the behaviour of a now disgraced top Tory, amid claims he joked about him being 'handsy' two years ago but promoted him anyway.<br>Cabinet minister Therese Coffey endured a torrid round of interviews today about the Prime Minister's handling of the resignation of Chris Pincher last week.<br>It emerged last night that  knew of lurid allegations about former deputy chief whip in 2020, before appointing him to a senior Government job.<br>After his resignation, No 10 said the Prime Minister had not been aware of any allegations before giving him the role.<br>However, The Mail on Sunday has been told that in 2020, Mr Johnson told aides: 'He's handsy,  [https://goaliesarchive.com/ Download Bokep] that's a problem.<br><br>Pincher by name, pincher by nature.'<br>Dr Coffey struggled to defend Mr Johnson in a string of interviews this morning. She said the PM had not been aware of 'specific' complaints, but also confirmed she had not spoken to him about what he knew before coming on television. <br>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.<br>But she conceded to the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: 'I've not spoken to the Prime Minister, no.'<br>Asked how she could be sure, she said: 'I've been informed this morning that he didn't know about specific allegations.'<br>Pressed about who gave her the assurances, she said: 'Somebody from the No 10 press office.'<br>Pincher, 52, resigned as deputy chief whip on Thursday night, after being accused of groping a man more than 20 years his junior at  's exclusive Carlton Club the day before.<br>But it was not until late on Friday afternoon that  also suspended the party whip pending an investigation.<br>The alleged victim last night voiced his fury at the slow pace of action taken against him as he revealed details of the alleged incident.<br><br>He  that Pincher touched his buttocks and groin in a 'bizarre' attack before he managed to extricate himself and flee to the gents toilets.<br>He then flagged the incident with another whip, Sarah Dines, who had been in the club's Macmillan bar at the time. He told the paper he said to her: 'That might have happened in the 1970s and 1980s but it's not OK now.' <br>In other developments engulfing Downing Street last night:<br>A source claimed that Mr Johnson had said in 2019, when he was running for leader, that he had the 'support of all the sex pests' in the party;A Tory staffer told how Mr Pincher threatened to report her to her boss when she tried to prevent his 'lecherous' advances towards a young man at a Tory party conference;A new complainant told The Mail on Sunday he had been subjected to unwanted advances from Mr Pincher a decade ago, when he was 24;MPs circulated claims that a senior Downing Street aide woke to find Mr Pincher in bed with him at a party 'awayday' 12 years ago - although the claims are denied by the aide and Mr Pincher, who also denies the other new allegations against him;Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle took advice about barring Mr Pincher from the Commons if the police are asked to look into any of the allegations, although the MP has agreed to stay away while the claims are investigated;Westminster researchers said that when they had complained about the 'sexual harassment culture' in Parliament earlier this year, they were told that Mr Pincher was the person to complain to.         Boris Johnson knew of lurid allegations about disgraced MP Chris Pincher two years before appointing him to a senior Government job, it was claimed last night<br>         When Mr Pincher quit as deputy chief whip on Thursday following reports he drunkenly groped two men in a private members' club, No 10 said the Prime Minister had not been aware of any allegations before giving him the role<br>         Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey this morning denied the PM had advance knowledge of Mr Pincher's proclivities, telling Sky News: 'I don't think that the Prime Minister was aware of specific concerns.'<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-d9173a20-fab7-11ec-9b57-25663c29e24b" website Therese Coffey defends Boris over Chris Pincher allegations