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

Rishi Sunak was last night under mounting pressure to investigate bombshell claims that his party covered up alleged rapes by a Tory MP. Rishi Sunak has come under pressure from senior Tories to launch an urgent investigation of covered up rapes by a sitting MP Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, who was party chairman until June last year, acknowledged that the party may have secretly funded treatment for the victim Mr Dowden said he couldn't deny that the payments were made but insisted they were not authorised by him The devastating claims relating to an alleged serial rapist Tory MP were revealed in Nadine Dorries' new book The unnamed Conservative was given the codename 'X' in the book, which suggested the party would be at 'severe' risk of prosecution if the case ended up in court Ms Dorries' explosive claims were first published in an exert of her book in the Mail on Sunday Last night there was mounting pressure for an inquiry into the scandal. ‘So it’s probably a matter for the police now.’ Anneliese Dodds, the Labour Party chairman, said last night: ‘These allegations are deeply concerning and extremely serious. 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 A second complaint was made by a ‘vulnerable’ woman who was also too frightened to go to the police with her story. In their letter to the police, Mr Berry and Ms Morton said the Tory MP may have had as many as five victims who had been ‘subject to a range of offences, including multiple rapes’.