MPs grilled Cabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin over Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s potential code breach in Parliament today as calls for her sacking continued.

Ms Braverman allegedly asked civil servants to bend the rules for a speeding penalty.

In October, she was found in breach of the ministerial code over security concerns.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner questioned: “How many strikes” before the Home Secretary is out?

Asking an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Rayner said: “Our constituents expect those who make the rules to follow the rules, especially the minister responsible for upholding the law.

“So can [Mr Quin] start by confirming whether the Home Secretary did or did not ask civil servants for help on this matter?

“After days of dither and delay … the Prime Minister still hasn’t decided whether there should be an investigation by his ethics adviser.

“When can we expect to know what the Prime Minister is thinking on this matter?”

Mr Quin said he is not “going to get into speculation about the events in question,” adding that the PM is gathering the information.

He said PM Rishi Sunak is the ultimate judge of the standards expected of a minister and the “appropriate consequences of a breach of those standards.”

The PM has asked Ms Braverman for further information, Mr Quin said.

SNP MP Kirsty Blackman said the government was descending into absolute farce.

The Aberdeen North MP said: “Instead of professionalism, accountability and integrity that the Prime Minister promised when he came into office, we are faced with calamity, chaos and corruption.

“How can the Prime Minister continue to pretend that he’s presiding over a government with anything other than their own personal interests at heart?”

Mr Quin repeated that information is being gathered.

Downing Street said Mr Sunak was still considering whether or not to order an investigation.

The PM’s official spokesman also faced questions about a report in the Independent newspaper that Ms Braverman failed to disclose previous work with the Rwandan government.

According to the paper, she helped co-found a charity that trained Rwandan government lawyers between 2010 and 2015.

The spokesman did not comment directly on the report, but said: “Ministers are required to make the requisite declarations.

“And if the independent adviser thinks they are of issue they are then declared.”