David Warburton: the varied past of the MP facing sexual harassment claims

Analysis: the backbencher has been a teacher, rock guitarist and van driver who some fellow MPs think had a mid-life crisis

David Warburton, a relatively unknown political figure outside his Somerton and Frome constituency, has been a backbencher for almost all of the seven years since he became a Conservative MP.

But the married father of two was catapulted into the headlines when a picture emerged of him next to lines of white powder alleged to be cocaine and several women reported him to parliament's harassment watchdog.

I don't think anyone would ever have mistaken him for Theresa May but this is a lot more than people would have predicted," says one MP