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A report by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee said the Government must overhaul boardroom and insolvency rules.

MP Ross Thomson, who led Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party leadership campaign north of the border, insisted claims by Paul Sweeney were “false”.

Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, said drug use was now a “public health emergency”.

Johnson claimed that the UK is set to “become the largest and most prosperous economy in this hemisphere”, a projection which was based on the "columnist’s own extrapolation of the data".

Nigel Farage has revealed the Tories offered him a peerage twice to avoid the Brexit Party running against their election candidates.

The Foreign Affairs Committee said a policy of closing borders will drive migrants to take dangerous routes and push them into the hands of smugglers.

Boris Johnson has been called on to remove Francesca O’Brien as the Conservative candidate for the marginal South Wales seat of Gower.

Paul Sweeney says Tory MP Ross Thomson groped at him in the House of Commons Strangers’ bar, and tried to put his hands down the front of his trousers.

The report also said too many “vulnerable people” were detained, some for years, including those with mental health problems which “sharply deteriorated” in detention, adding: “The indefinite nature of detention also caused great distress.”