New Tory sleaze row rocks Sunak
RISHI SUNAK was rocked by a fresh Tory sleaze scandal today with allegations that a back-bench MP had used party funds to pay off blackmailers.
Mark Menzies, MP for the Fylde in Lancashire, was reported to have told an official in his constituency party to urgently provide cash to pay “bad people” he was with in a flat last December.
In claims first reported in The Times, the official was repaid with campaign funds from a secret Tory-backing “business group” in the constituency.
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