🚨BREAKING🚨

Tory MP Luke Evans has revealed he was targeted in the Westminster honeytrap plot.

He was sent a photo of a naked woman out of the blue over Whatsapp. He’s contacted the police.

Follows Tory MP William Wragg going public.

Story here👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

In this week’s Saturday political read, we look at the Tory leader wannabes schmoozing tomorrow’s (aspiring) MPs...

Candidates have been offered:

🔵 Links to donors through Mordaunt
🔵 Drinks with Truss
🔵 Campaign tips from Shapps

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/… (w/ Ben Riley-Smith)

Powerful stuff from Charlotte Nichols, who has PTSD, on how psilocybin therapy gave her hope that the “person I was before my diagnosis is still in there somewhere”.

The Labour MP wants to make the active chemical in magic mushrooms available on the NHS.

(w/Lauren Shirreff)

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs

High-risk private flights are being cleared without proper checks at London City Airport in “shocking” failures at the border, the former immigration inspector has warned telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2…

Suella Braverman risks a backlash over her planned appearance with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban

The Lib Dems said: 'No politician should be sharing the stage with an ally of Vladimir Putin as he carries out his barbaric invasion of Ukraine'
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

David Cameron was challenged by Tory MPs at the 1922 last night over the UK backing the UN Gaza ceasefire motion.

Four Tories questioned the Foreign Sec on the UK’s stance on the Israel conflict, including Villiers and Ellis.

Amy Gibbons story.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

🔴 Labour pledges to revive 'boiler tax' after plans shelved by Tories telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

🚨 The Chancellor has stepped in after HMRC made a bid to push customers online - insisting it must not come at 'the detriment of the general public and the vulnerable' 👇

📊POLLING NEWS📊

Telegraph tonight launches a new weekly election tracker with Savanta UK

Views of British voters to be published every Tues evening in election year

Latest: **37%** of Tory voters want Sunak gone as leader before the election

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

👀 New Foreign Secretary?

Speaking at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Starmer says he listens to Beethoven while he reads the Sunday papers to take “the edge off” some of the more “uncomfortable” stories… 🎶

Jeremy Hunt on scrapping the non-dom loophole, 2022:
“I’m not going to do anything that’s going to damage the long-term attractiveness of the UK, even though it gives easy shots to opposition parties, I think it would be the wrong thing to do in terms of creating jobs in the UK.”

A “gender play gap” is making it harder for girls to get into sport, MPs have warned telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/0…

Interesting that the Speaker is allowing so much noise from the Tory backbenchers... normally at this stage he'd be suggesting someone has a nice cup of tea

Lee Anderson cheering Sunak on from the Tory benches… #PMQs

🏘️ Council tax rises on the Tories’ watch are set to wipe out savings from cuts to national insurance, Labour has claimed telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/2…

Last time MPs revolted against a Speaker (Michael Martin), it took just 22 signatures (and - to be fair - the prospect of an actual vote in the Commons) for him to resign.

Every MP that has called for Hoyle to go so far 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

Current total stands at 63 - including 26 from the SNP. If all the party’s representatives in Westminster back the motion - as their leader Stephen Flynn has done - the number will shoot up to 80.

Starmer has insisted he did not threaten the Commons Speaker “in any way whatsoever” to secure a vote on Labour’s stance on Gaza telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…