A WORCESTERSHIRE MP will continue in his post after a Cabinet Office investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour found that he did not break the ministerial code.

Wyre Forest MP Mark Garnier faced an investigation after it was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May following allegations he used derogatory language to his secretary and asked her to buy sex toys, before he became International Trade Minister.

The probe was sparked after Mr Garnier's former secretary Caroline Edmondson told the Mail on Sunday he had given her money in 2010 to buy two vibrators at a Soho sex shop - one for his wife and one for a woman in his constituency office.

But in November Mr Garnier told the Worcester News' sister paper, the Kidderminster Shuttle, that the events had been taken "outside of the context" in which they occurred and stressed he hadn't pressurised his former aide into doing anything.

And a Number 10 spokesman has now said the Cabinet Office found no evidence to suggest Mr Garnier acted improperly after being appointed a minister in 2016.

Prime Minister Theresa May has said "a line should be drawn under the issue".

The Downing Street spokesman said: "The Cabinet Office concluded that there was no dispute about the facts of the incident, but there was a significant difference of interpretation between the parties, and that the member of staff in Mr Garnier's office was distressed by what had occurred.

"It was not his intention to cause distress, and Mr Garnier has apologised unreservedly to the individual."