LABOUR will feel they have PM Rishi Sunak on the ropes over his delayed-reaction decision to withdraw the Tory whip from Baroness Mone.

The Conservatives may have hoped they had moved on from Covid after ousting Boris Johnson — but the wounds still fester and even had Sunak acted faster he could not stop this scandal running.

Baroness Mone denounces a “witch hunt” against her, denying she benefited to the tune of millions from contracts awarded to a company she recommended (PPE Medpro). Her decision to take a “leave of absence” from the House of Lords is supposedly to clear her name.