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Rishi Sunak is struggling to quell another sleaze row after extraordinary allegations surfaced about Mark Menzies yesterday.

The Fylde MP has been suspended from the party whip and dropped as one of the PMs trade envoys. Labour has also pressed for a criminal probe by writing to police.

Today at her neat bungalow in genteel Lytham St Annes, the lifelong Tory activist said she did not want to talk about the incident, which she is understood to have found deeply distressing.

In another sleaze headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Fylde MP Mark Menzies had the whip suspended and was axed as a trade envoy over the extraordinary allegations.