Pheu Thai ‘should probe’ ex-DPM’s alleged adultery

Pheu Thai should probe the allegation that a former deputy prime minister committed adultery as a well-known lawyer has vowed to speak on the matter on Monday, according to the party’s deputy leader.

Yutthapong Charasathien, deputy leader of the opposition party, said on Sunday he would ask Pheu Thai leader Cholnan Srikaew to launch an ethics investigation into the affair as the allegation concerned “a deputy prime minister in the Yingluck Shinawatra government”.

Former deputy prime ministers in the Yingluck administration were members of Pheu Thai and other parties, Mr Yutthapong said, referring to Yingluck Shinawatra, daughter…