Serb link to Tory funds

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Gordon Downey, is to be asked by Labour to investigate links between Serbia and Tory funds.

The move follows a report yesterday that Harold Elletson, MP for Blackpool North, worked for MI6 in Eastern Europe and was said to have told his handlers that Serb donations were reaching party headquarters. Yesterday he described the allegations as "schoolboy fiction". Fran Abrams