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Fallon Quits as U.K. Defense Chief After Harassment Claims
- First cabinet minister to go as scandal swirls around Commons
- Defence secretary says he fell short of standards expected
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U.K. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon quit his post, citing allegations about his past conduct and becoming the first cabinet casualty of a sexual-harassment scandal that’s sweeping Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party as well as the Labour opposition.
“I accept that in the past I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces which I have the privilege to represent,” Fallon said in a letter to May released by her office late Wednesday. He told the BBC in an interview that “what might have been acceptable 10, 15 years ago is clearly not acceptable now.”