UK PM Sunak faces new vote to fill seat after lawmaker accused of groping resigns

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walks at Downing Street in London, Britain September 6, 2023. REUTERS/Susannah Ireland

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces another difficult vote to fill a vacant seat in parliament after a lawmaker who was given an eight-week suspension for groping two men at a London club last year announced he plans to resign.

Chris Pincher, who now sits as an independent, announced on Thursday he would leave the House of Commons more than a year after he was suspended from the ruling Conservative Party by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year.