The ten things you need to know on Sunday 5 May 2013...
1) DEPUTY COMMONS SPEAKER ARRESTED FOR RAPE
It's Nigel Evans MP.
"Shockwaves reverberated around Westminster yesterday as news of senior Tory Nigel Evans' arrest emerged.
"The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons was held on suspicion of raping one man and sexually assaulting another between July 2009 and March this year. Both are in their 20s.
"A Whitehall source said PM David Cameron and Mr Evans’ boss, Speaker John Bercow, had both been informed.
"Detectives swooped on the MP’s cottage in the Lancashire village of Pendleton yesterday morning.
Evans, a former vice chairman of the Conservative Party and ex-shadow Welsh secretary, has been deputy Commons speaker since 2010 and MP for the safe Tory seat of Ribble Valley since 1992. He revealed he was gay in December 2010, saying he was "tired of living a lie".
Having been bailed by the police last night, a pale, bespectacled Evans appeared outside his home in Pendleton this morning to express a "sense of incredulity" at the allegations. Referring to the complaints as "completely false", he said they had come from two men who "until yesterday, I had regarded as friends...and I cannot understand why they have been made, especially as I have continued to socialise with one as recently as last week."
Can Evans stay on as deputy Commons speaker as the criminal investigation continues? Defence Secretary Philip Hammond this morning suggested it might be difficult for him to do so "under such scrutiny".
"Top Tory arrested for rape," declares the Sunday Mirror.
"Deputy speaker in rape arrest," says the Sunday Times.
"Top Tory arrested over 'rape'," is the headline in the Sunday Telegraph.
"Tory deputy speaker in gay rape arrest," screams the Sun on Sunday.
The Mail on Sunday goes with: "Deputy Speaker arrested over gay rape."
The Mirror's Vincent Moss, who broke the story late last night, reports:
1) DEPUTY COMMONS SPEAKER ARRESTED FOR RAPE
It's Nigel Evans MP.
"Shockwaves reverberated around Westminster yesterday as news of senior Tory Nigel Evans' arrest emerged.
"The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons was held on suspicion of raping one man and sexually assaulting another between July 2009 and March this year. Both are in their 20s.
"A Whitehall source said PM David Cameron and Mr Evans’ boss, Speaker John Bercow, had both been informed.
"Detectives swooped on the MP’s cottage in the Lancashire village of Pendleton yesterday morning.
Evans, a former vice chairman of the Conservative Party and ex-shadow Welsh secretary, has been deputy Commons speaker since 2010 and MP for the safe Tory seat of Ribble Valley since 1992. He revealed he was gay in December 2010, saying he was "tired of living a lie".
Having been bailed by the police last night, a pale, bespectacled Evans appeared outside his home in Pendleton this morning to express a "sense of incredulity" at the allegations. Referring to the complaints as "completely false", he said they had come from two men who "until yesterday, I had regarded as friends...and I cannot understand why they have been made, especially as I have continued to socialise with one as recently as last week."
Can Evans stay on as deputy Commons speaker as the criminal investigation continues? Defence Secretary Philip Hammond this morning suggested it might be difficult for him to do so "under such scrutiny".
"Top Tory arrested for rape," declares the Sunday Mirror.
"Deputy speaker in rape arrest," says the Sunday Times.
"Top Tory arrested over 'rape'," is the headline in the Sunday Telegraph.
"Tory deputy speaker in gay rape arrest," screams the Sun on Sunday.
The Mail on Sunday goes with: "Deputy Speaker arrested over gay rape."
The Mirror's Vincent Moss, who broke the story late last night, reports:
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