The SNP leader, Ian Blackford, said he has written to the cabinet secretary demanding “full transparency about Owen Paterson’s lobbying, particularly relating to Covid-19 contracts involving huge sums of money”, while the Lib Dem chief whip, Wendy Chamberlain, called for “a full and thorough investigation by the standards commissioner” into the links between Paterson, Randox Laboratories and the former health secretary, Matt Hancock. The Sleaze accusations continue to build around Boris Johnson.