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**Hugh** · 06-11-2023, 11:59

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-claims.html

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Fury in Westminster amid bombshell claims the Tory party covered up alleged rapes by a Conservative MP with Rishi Sunak under mounting pressure to launch an urgent enquiry into the claims

Oliver Dowden acknowledged party may have funded treatment for victim

Rishi Sunak was last night under mounting pressure to investigate bombshell claims that his party covered up alleged rapes by a Tory MP.

Senior figures on all sides at Westminster demanded an urgent inquiry into shocking allegations that the Conservatives sat on the sexual assault claims for years.

Oliver Dowden even acknowledged that his party may have secretly funded medical treatment for a woman who told officials she had been raped by a Tory MP.

The Deputy Prime Minister, who served as party chairman until June last year, said: ‘It may be the case. I’m not denying that it could be the case that those payments were made, but it’s not something that I authorised.’

The devastating claims are alluded to in an explosive new book from ex-minister Nadine Dorries and were first reported by The Mail on Sunday.

The newspaper revealed yesterday that former Tory chairman Jake Berry and former chief whip Wendy Morton wrote to the police last year urging them to investigate after learning of the alleged cover-up.

Last night there was mounting pressure for an inquiry into the scandal.

Former Cabinet minister David Davis said the claims were so serious they should be investigated by the police, who are already looking into the rape allegations.

Mr Davis said there was ‘no argument in the world that can support covering up such a thing, if it’s true’.

‘Obviously, covering up a case like that is a criminal offence in its own right,’ he told GB News yesterday. ‘So it’s probably a matter for the police now.’