MPs will now have to vote on the proposed eight-week suspension. The motion must be tabled by the government and cannot be amended or debated.
If the punishment is endorsed, a recall petition will be opened. Were 10% of voters in his constituency to sign it, a byelection would be called.
Should Pincher choose to stand down then a byelection would automatically be triggered, though the date for it would be announced by the government.
His Tamworth seat should be a comfortable hold for the Conservatives. In 2019, Pincher had a majority just shy of 20,000 votes.
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Rishi Sunak faces the prospect of another byelection headache after the former Tory MP Chris Pincher lost an appeal against an eight-week suspension from parliament.
A report in July said Pincher had committed an “abuse of power” by drunkenly groping two men at the Carlton Club in London the previous summer.
An independent expert panel (IEP) found that the original committee that investigated him “approached this task properly, with the correct considerations in mind”.
“He re-entered the Carlton Club in the hope that he could rejoin this same event, or at least interact with the attenders, including other MPs, parliamentary staff and civil servants,” the report said.
Pincher said he “never thought to act with impunity”, had resigned from the government promptly after, apologised to the victims and announced he would not seek to stand as an MP at the next general election.
Those were taken into account, but the IEP said in many other workplaces those actions would probably have “led to disqualification or suspension for periods of years, often with compulsory DBS checks before any return to work would be possible”.
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