Cocaine was found in toilets during raucous parties at the Tory party conference, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Our probe found traces of the class A drug in two bathrooms close to a packed bar within the security cordon at Birmingham’s Hyatt Regency hotel.
Prime Minister Liz Truss and senior ministers along with hundreds of MPs, delegates, party members and donors were based at the plush venue where champagne flowed into the early hours.
A positive test was also recorded on a surface within a toilet at a boozy Tory party in the city’s library.The conference is already facing sleaze allegations after trade minister Conor Burns was sacked over claims of “serious misconduct” in the hotel bar.Traces of cocaine were found using a testing kit available online, suggesting lines had been snorted from the top of toilet roll holders in cubicles.The revelations are yet another embarrassment for Truss, who has been reeling from one crisis to another after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget of tax cuts for millionaires crashed the pound and sent mortgage rates soaring.She won the keys to No10 in September after former prime minister Boris Johnson was forced out over scandals including lockdown-busting parties at Downing Street.Our drug findings reinforce claims of a debauched “last days of Rome” atmosphere at last week’s conference, with polling suggesting a Tory wipeout at a future general election.Former Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency boss and ex-Labour MSP Graeme Pearson said: “The abuse of cocaine is now widespread in society and that abuse inflicts serious harm to many families across the country.“It is well beyond time that those in authority did more than talk and instead take action to tackle
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