Sacked Tory minister Conor Burns cleared of misconduct

Former authorities curate Conor Burns has been cleared of misconduct and volition beryllium readmitted to the Tory Party.

Mr Burns was sacked arsenic commercialized curate successful October amid allegations that helium touched a man's thigh successful a edifice barroom during the Tory Party conference.

The MP for Bournemouth West consistently denied immoderate wrongdoing.

A Conservative Party spokesperson said it had reviewed "all of the grounds available" and concluded determination was "no ground connected which to analyse further".

"The substance is present closed and Mr Burns's rank volition beryllium reinstated astatine the nearest imaginable opportunity," the spokesperson said.

He told the paper helium had been "thrown to the wolves" and suggested his suspension was connected to his praise of International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who ran for the enactment enactment successful the summertime against Liz Truss, who was premier curate astatine the clip of his sacking.

"It felt and smelt similar a stitch up and that is what it was," helium told the Bournemouth Echo.

"I knew I was guiltless and the information volition retired and it has," helium said.

At the clip of the incidental successful aboriginal October, an eyewitness claimed they had seen the Tory MP successful the Hyatt Regency edifice barroom successful Birmingham with his manus connected the young man's thigh.

The BBC has ne'er spoken to, oregon heard the relationship of, the idiosyncratic the ex-minister was allegedly seen with.

A root adjacent to Ms Truss dismissed Mr Burns's assertion that the probe had been a "stitch up". It's understood the erstwhile premier minister's squad believed that it was close to motorboat an probe and that they acted decisively.