Katie Hopkins has been accused of behaving in “a dangerously provocative way” after she suggested Pakistani men in the Rochdale area were sex abusers.

Rolf Harris’s reputation was left in tatters as police considered fresh allegations against him amid calls for tributes and honours to the disgraced entertainer to be removed.

The British Government should take steps to claw back some of the pay-off given to a former council chief executive who presided over a sickening grooming scandal, an MP has said.