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A Tory MP quit his job as a government whip and referred himself to the police tonight after being branded a “pound shop Harvey Weinstein” over claims he made an unwanted sexual pass at a former Olympic rower while wearing a bathrobe.

Chris Pincher, a Tory whip, is alleged to have tried to untuck the shirt of rower and Conservative activist Alex Story after persuading him to come back to his London home.

In a newspaper column, Story alleged Pincher had asked him to go for “din-dins” after drinking in a Westminster pub at the end of a day of phone canvassing in 2001, when he was 26.

But instead of going to a restaurant, he says Pincher directed the cab south across the Thames, saying: “I just need to go back home quickly.”

After arriving at his flat, Story says Pincher poured him a whisky and he felt “a bit woozy.”

He alleges Pincher became “unusually tactile”, massaging his neck and trying to untuck his shirt, while saying: “You will go far in the Conservative Party.”

Story says he told Pincher he wanted to “stay friends,” at which point Pincher left the room, saying: “Let me just slip into something more comfortable.”

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He returned, according to Story, in a bathrobe “like a pound shop Harvey Weinstein”, with his chest and belly sticking out.

Mr Story says he made his apologies and left promptly.

But he added: “As I made my way back home I had the feeling of awkwardness that one gets when one’s leg is being dry-humped by an overly keen chihuahua in front of elderly relatives.”

Pincher was not an MP at the time, but after his election in 2010 he quickly rose through the ranks to be installed in the whips office between July 2016 and the June 2017 election.

Mr Story wrote: “I am a straight man. And the deceit employed to get me to his flat went beyond misreading the signs. I would say it was clearly premeditated.

“While I in no way consider myself any kind of victim here, as a father of four young children, I am concerned that it could happen to someone else less able to defend themselves.”

Mr Pincher said: “If Mr Story has ever felt offended by anything I said then I can only apologise to him.”

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Downing Street tonight confirmed Stephen Crabb will face a party disciplinary panel established under Theresa May’s new code of conduct for party members and MPs.

It follows allegations that he had sent suggestive text messages to a 19-year-old woman who applied for a job in his office.

Mr Crabb admitted sending the messages, which he said contained “some pretty outrageous things”, after he had interviewed the woman for the job, and that the texts “basically amount to unfaithfulness.”

Mr Crabb resigned as a cabinet minister in 2016, after similar allegations emerged.

Charlie Elphicke, was referred to police on Friday night over “serious allegations” about his behaviour.

He later responded on Twitter, writing: ”The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension. I am not aware of what the alleged claims are and deny any wrongdoing."