Officials were recorded by undercover journalists discussing a potential way to secure foreign donations to the party.

Elizabeth Evans, who shared a video of an RNLI training exercise, says the comments were "really, really bad".

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

Surely that’s the lesson the Reform polling furore should teach us. Politics should be about actually helping people, not mastering the line on a graph, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations.

Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.