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After stubbornly digging his heels in this week, Boris Johnson has resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party.

Margaret Ferrier could face a by-election after the House of Commons standards committee recommended she receives a 30-day suspension for breaching Covid rules.

There are just two days left for council candidates to win Greater Manchester residents over for their votes in this year's local elections. More than 250 council seats are up for grabs across the region - with key battles shaping up in some boroughs.

supports HTML5 videoIan Hislop has torn into MPs over issues including sleaze, second jobs, and lobbying, as he told them that the public is ‘sick of being taken for fools’.The Have I Got News For You host and editor of Private Eye, who’s no stranger to holding the government to account, appeared before the standards watchdog on Tuesday when he gave the impassioned speech.Speaking about some MPs’ second jobs, Ian, 61, said: ‘What do you think these companies are paying the money for? Do you think they are chucking it away?‘When politicians declare their interests, why do they think businesses are paying them this money?‘I think the public is very sick of being taken for fools at the moment on all sorts of levels, and it is very sick of being taken for fools on this level.’His comments came as MPs have been embroiled in sleaze allegations over money earned outside Parliament, with Tory MP Owen Paterson resigning over findings that he lobbied on behalf of two companies paying him more than £100,000 per year.Ian went on: ‘I think we have to admit that the system failed in that Owen Paterson had obviously no idea he was breaking the code, and a large number of his fellow MPs decided that they had no idea either, and that the whole system wasn’t working.‘We have to redefine the term lobbying, and we have to incorporate some of the proposals you have made, and instead make them harder.’Ian also clashed with Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin.Sir Bernard said: ‘You can police rules and have tougher rules but lots of people will carry on gaming rules.

Boris Johnson has been accused of "conning" voters on social care, after Tory MPs rubber stamped a controversial funding plan that will hit poorer pensioners.

A Greater Manchester Conservative MP has confessed he called Owen Paterson a ‘c***’ to his face.

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross twice refused to say if he has confidence in Boris Johnson amid Conservative sleaze rows.

Boris Johnson has admitted it was “a total mistake” to try to defend Owen Paterson for breaking lobbying rules in a move that triggered a fortnight of Tory sleaze scandals.

Boris Johnson has been accused by Keir Starmer of being a “coward, not a leader” over his conduct in the Tory sleaze scandal .

Boris Johnson is “in the sewer with his troops” over Tory sleaze, Keir Starmer has said.

Boris Johnson should take a lesson from his best pal Donald Trump and remember that “cheating the public, catches up with you”.

The wife of Conservative former cabinet minister Owen Paterson was found dead in woodland near the family home on his 64th birthday.