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Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has been embarrassed by an online sting conducted by a freelance journalist working on behalf of the Sunday Mirror. The story offered some picturesque details about self expression and paisley pattern pajamas.

The paper is now being investigated by the new IPSO press regulator for its use of subterfuge.

To accompany this week’s Conservative Party Conference another MP and a significant financial donor have also announced their defection to Nigel Farage’s UKIP.

The conference speeches have become a de facto leadership hustings with Home Secretary Theresa May making her intentions for ‘the other side of the election’ pretty clear yesterday. The present Prime Minister is, er, upstanding today.

Updated: 26th March 2015 –  The Sunday Mirror is cleared by IPSO.

Updated: 18th September 2015 – The Prime Minister is accused of receiving a blow job from a severed pig’s head back in his university days. The first extract from an unauthorised biography of David Cameron from former Conservative Party donor, Lord Michael Ashcroft raises a few eyebrows.