Skripal fallout

Is the nerve agent attack in salisbury going to claim its first tory scalp? Baroness scott of Bybrook, the leader of Wiltshire Council, faces a move to oust her. the challenge comes after scott, who was elevated to the house of Lords by David Cameron, was criticised for her failure to visit salisbury in the three weeks after the attack on sergei and Yulia skripal. she sent her deputy John thomson, who said she was too ill to attend — only for it to emerge that she had gone to the Lords three times, claiming her £300 daily attendance allowance. the salisbury Journal reports she will be challenged this week.