[I]f we took away the whip from everyone here [in the House of Commons] who's pinched someone's bottom, we'll lose our majority.

Said "in the heat of the moment", according to Johnson's former communications director Guto Harri reportedly during the Chris Pincher scandal (c. July 2022), as cited in "Boris Johnson joked UK Tories would lose majority if they sacked every groper, claims ex-aide", Politico (15 June 2023)

According to Dominic Cummings, Johnson had used the phrase "Pincher by name, pincher by nature" about the MP around 2020.