Deputy party leader Daisy Cooper says "the vast majority of our MPs support Ed... and are furious at this distraction."

Kerry is charged with the murder of the 78-year-old former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman.

Created 60 years ago, most of the powers it used to hold were transferred to Cardiff Bay in 1999.

Jewish Greens' leader has said Polanski should resign in the wake of a Zionism row and by-election defeat.