100 MPs set to back Boris Johnson

BORIS Johnson has stormed ahead in the race to become Tory leader, with at least 100 MPs expected to back the ex-London mayor. 

And private polling reveals only Mr Johnson has the ability to secure a General Election victory by reaching out to swing voters across the country. The outspoken Brexit campaigner has already been backed by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and Environment Secretary Liz Truss.

Dominic Raab, the Justice Minister, and Farming Minister George Eustice have also thrown their weight behind Mr Johnson's leadership bid. Mr Johnson, who once said he was more likely to be "reincarnated as an olive" than become Prime Minister, is expected to declare later today.

Money laundering: New law planned to target corrupt officials - BBC

MPs, councillors and civil servants suspected of corruption are to be targeted by a new law proposed by the home secretary.

Theresa May intends to establish an offence of "illicit enrichment" for cases where a public official's assets have increased significantly without satisfactory explanation.

It is part of a wider shake-up of measures to tackle money laundering.

But Mrs May said it not a "knee-jerk" reaction to the Panama Papers.

She said the economy was "at risk of being undermined" by money laundering, illicit finance and the funding of terrorism.

'Significant threat'

Her new proposals - subject to a six-week consultation period being launched in the Commons later - plan to give the civil courts powers to impose new "unexplained wealth orders".