Glen Owen

Senior party figures, who are tracking the BBC's news coverage, contrast wall-to-wall coverage of Tory scandals with that of problems afflicting Labour , such as the Angela Rayner council house row.

They were the secret negotiations between Nigel Farage's Brexit Party and shadowy Tory fixer Dougie Smith which sowed the seeds of the disaster facing Rishi Sunak.

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has backed a policy of deporting people to third countries for asylum processing.

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, has backed a policy of deporting people to third countries for asylum processing

Labour Deputy Leader Ms Rayner, 44, who is under police investigation over revelations in The Mail on Sunday about her two-homes living arrangements, had a flirtation with the Lib Dems.

Boris is like a coiled black mamba, ready to strike,' says an ally. 'He is watching David Cameron stride cheerfully around the world stage, while he sits in exile and the party's poll ratings sink.

Ten million pensioners will be among those whose personal accounts will be secretly scanned to check for welfare fraud under plans that have been described as 'a snoopers' charter'.

'What have we become? A rescue home for tarnished Tories?' That was the reaction of a Labour grandee in the wake of the back-firing defections of Dan Poulter and Natalie Elphicke.

Natalie Elphicke, who defected to Labour this week, faces claims she complained to Sir Robert Buckland about the judge who presided over Charlie Elphicke's trial for sexually assaulting two women.

Supporters of Andrew Malkinson who was wrongly jailed for rape have joined calls for a review into the conviction of White House Farm murderer Jeremy Bamber.