Tories head into local elections with porn MP scandal on top of 'partygate'

Police have announced that they have finished the investigation i nto the parties at Downing Street and across Whitehall during the pandemic. Dozens of fines have been issued and the Metropolitan police have finished their investigation into lockdown-breaking parties.

Richard Madeley has urged the Tory government to introduce a windfall tax on energy firms who are benefitting from the rise in prices.

The Scottish farmed salmon industry has warned Boris Johnson to “step back” from a trade war with Europe over the Northern Ireland protocol.

Boris Johnson’s U-turn on junk food, with one denouncing the plans as “unConservative”. Boris Johnson (PA)The cost of obesity-related illnesses places a huge financial burden on taxpayers and the NHS, Lord Bethell said. The latest move was not “aligned with the kind of Conservative principles that I’m familiar with”, he added.

Anas Sarwar has backed Keir Starmer to take Labour into the next general election despite the UK party leader facing mounting questions over beergate.

The Conservative Party faced some tough early losses as counts got underway in England overnight. Boris Johnson is facing a backlash from local party leaders after losing three key London authorities.

Millions of voters are heading to the polls to decide who they want to run their councils as local elections take place across the UK today. More than 4,000 councillors across 146 councils in England are standing for election, and the results will be trickling in from the early hours of Friday morning.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said he aims to make the party a "major force" in Greater Manchester, as he identified Stockport as a "key" target in this week's local elections.

Lorraine Kelly joked Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid should be Prime Minister following her grilling interview of Boris Johnson.

Good Morning Britain viewers were not impressed with host Richard Madeley, who they suggested was sympathetic towards porn watching MP Neil Parish.

The Prime Minister has ignored calls to scrap all Clean Air Zone charges in Greater Manchester as he responded to a letter from leaders sent eight weeks ago. Mayor Andy Burnham wrote to Boris Johnson on March 3 saying that the Labour leaders of the city-region want a non-charging scheme instead – and Bolton's Conservative leader Martyn Cox also supported the suggestion.

The Tory MP who is being investigated for allegedly watching pornography in the Commons chamber has been named and suspended from the Tory party.

A top Tory female minister has revealed she was once "pinned up against a wall" by a male MP a number of years ago.

Scots pensioners who carry on working after retirement age are set to be an average of £2,300 worse off over the next two years because of three broken Tory promises, Labour has claimed.

Boris Johnson swerved questions about the partygate scandal at a press conference in India on Friday (April 22).

Boris Johnson being dumped as Conservative leader is now a question of “when, not if”, according to senior Tory MP.