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LABOUR will today force a Commons vote over the “cash-for-favours” scandal involving Richard “Dirty Des” Desmond.
If successful, the government would have to release all documents relating to the Westferry Printworks Development on the Isle of Dogs, which is being undertaken by Northern & Shell, a company owned by the billionaire former press baron and Tory donor.
It had been revealed that Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick unlawfully approved the application in January, overruling Tower Hamlets council and his own planning inspector.
Burnham launches his campaign to return to Westminster
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES