Prime Minister Boris Johnson is focusing on bins, potholes and council tax, but the Tories are entering the final days before the local elections on Thursday with a fresh scandal adding to the 'partygate' fallout. Conservative MP Neil Parish announced his resignation on Saturday as he admitted twice watching pornography in the House of Commons.
The former member for Tiverton and Honiton in the South West told the BBC he had first looked at tractors online before getting 'into another website that had a very similar name'. The fresh embarrassment came as activists canvas for votes for a Tory party led by a Prime Minister fined by police for breaching his own coronavirus laws.
Polls in 200 local authorities across Britain open on Thursday, in a chance for voters to register their disapproval, or their support. Labour currently run nine of the local councils in Greater Manchester. Stockport and Bolton are in no overall control, with Stockport council under a Labour administration and the Conservatives in power in Bolton as the largest single party.
