Police are looking into claims that Labour’s candidate in a critical election race may have broken electoral law by wrongly claiming that he lived in the area.
Richard Parker is attempting to unseat Andy Street, Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, in a closely fought contest that could determine whether Rishi Sunak faces a challenge to his leadership.
On the eve of the polls the Tories have claimed that Parker made a misleading statement on his nomination papers because he lives ten miles outside the area where he is standing for election. They said he had attempted to get round the rules by taking on a short-term rental property in Birmingham, which was listed as his address on his election papers.
Parker has been reported
