LABOUR will today force a Commons vote over the “cash-for-favours” scandal involving Richard “Dirty Des” Desmond.

If successful, the government would have to release all documents relating to the Westferry Printworks Development on the Isle of Dogs, which is being undertaken by Northern & Shell, a company owned by the billionaire former press baron and Tory donor.

It had been revealed that Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved the application in January, overruling Tower Hamlets council and his own planning inspector.