Cocaine found in toilets at the Conservative Party conference during raucous parties

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Cocaine was found in toilets during raucous ­parties at the Tory party conference, the ­Sunday Mail can reveal. Our probe found traces of the class A drug in two bathrooms close to a packed bar within the security cordon at Birmingham’s Hyatt Regency hotel.

Prime Minister Liz Truss and senior ­ministers along with hundreds of MPs, ­delegates, party members and donors were based at the plush venue where champagne flowed into the early hours.

A positive test was also recorded on a ­surface within a toilet at a boozy Tory party in the city’s library.The conference is already facing sleaze allegations after trade minister Conor Burns was sacked over claims of “serious ­misconduct” in the hotel bar.Traces of cocaine were found using a ­testing kit available online, suggesting lines had been snorted from the top of toilet roll holders in cubicles.The revelations are yet another ­embarrassment for Truss, who has been ­reeling from one crisis to another after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget of tax cuts for millionaires crashed the pound and sent mortgage rates soaring.She won the keys to No10 in ­September after former prime minister Boris Johnson was forced out over scandals including lockdown-busting ­parties at Downing Street.Our drug findings reinforce claims of a debauched “last days of Rome” ­atmosphere at last week’s conference, with polling ­suggesting a Tory wipeout at a future general election.Former Scottish Crime and Drug ­Enforcement Agency boss and ex-Labour MSP Graeme Pearson said: “The abuse of cocaine is now widespread in society and that abuse inflicts serious harm to many families across the country.“It is well beyond time that those in ­authority did more than talk and instead take action to tackle