6 Nov 2019

Cairns facing calls to quit as Conservative candidate

Home Affairs Correspondent

Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns is thought to be the first Cabinet minister in memory to resign during a general election campaign.

Well the former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns is thought to be the first Cabinet minister in memory to resign during a general election campaign – promising to ‘co-operate in full’ with an investigation into his actions – and insisting he was confident he would be cleared of any wrongdoing.