Tory defector Mark Reckless is on course to win back his Commons seat for Ukip in the upcoming by-election in Rochester and Strood, according to a new opinion poll.
The survey by Survation for the Mail on Sunday has Ukip nine points ahead of the Conservatives in the constituency.
A Conservative MP has said he will write the police over newspaper "entrapment" that led his Conservative colleague Brooks Newmark to resign from government.
Mark Pritchard had already confirmed he would be complaining to the new press regulator about the Sunday Mirror revelations, but has now questioned whether criminal law was also broken by the newspaper.
Brooks Newmark resigned as Minister for Civil Society after he sent suggestive pictures to a reporter posing as a young Conservative campaigner.
The Democratic presidential candidate may also have shown his cards on his choice of running mate.
The US president also shared a post on Twitter accusing Dr Anthony Fauci of misleading the public over hydroxychloroquine.
Fears over an impending second wave of coronavirus dominates Wednesday’s front pages.