The Spanish authorities jailed the vice president and eight ministers of the deposed Catalan government on Thursday.
At the start of this week 15 current ministers and over 20 more Tory MPs faced allegations of sexual misconduct.
Was the Heaton-Harris affair just a storm in a teacup? Christopher Heaton-Harris is the pro-Leave Tory whip who wrote to university vice-chancellors asking for information about “professors involved in the teaching of European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit”.
As the prospect of government nears, the pressure is on Labour to distance itself from the movement, writes Sadie Robinson