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NICK Robinson has told a Tory minister he’ll take no “lectures” from him on impartiality during a heated debate about Westminster scandals.

Thursday’s voting is ostenciably about potholes and bin services but could these key council areas indicate the direction of a future general election – and the fate of Boris Johnson?

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey compared the situation to the dying days of Sir John Major’s administration.

Conservative candidates Councillor Robert Rigby and Ralu Other-Osoka in St John’s Wood High Street

Lance O’Connor was convicted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of harassing Hove MP Peter Kyle in Parliament Square, central London, last October.

The voters’ backlash on Thursday is all but sealed. In local council elections across London and large swathes of the country, the Government will pay a price, not only for cost of living hikes and Covid miscalculations, but also for a torrent of damaging revelations about a new era of…

Shadow minister Peter Kyle, 51, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court that he felt ‘chilled’ and ‘threatened’.

Vapes were among items seized in raids by trading standards (Yui Mok/PA)

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with the Daily Record's Political Editor Paul Hutcheon, Sturgeon also spoke about the cost of living crisis and indyref2.