A second Labour MP has been suspended amid concerns about the repayment of taxpayer-funded Covid business loans.
Perran Moon, the MP for Camborne and Redruth, is understood to have lost the Labour whip in the House of Commons while an investigation takes place.
It comes after he voluntarily referred himself to party officials so that questions about emergency finance taken out by his former business can be looked into.
Companies House records show that Mr Moon is the co-owner of Autoswot Limited, an online training company set up in 2019.
The business is reported to have taken out loans of £50,000 during the Covid pandemic,
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