TORY chairman Lord Andrew Feldman faced renewed pressure to resign yesterday over claims the party covered up evidence of bullying, blackmail and sexual abuse in its youth section.

Ray Johnson, the father of Elliott Johnson, the 21-year-old Tory activist who killed himself in September after alleged bullying in the party, made the accusation after new evidence emerged suggesting that Mr Feldman knew about bullying but failed to act.

A former Conservative youth activist told BBC 2’s Newsnight programme that a dossier detailing a culture of bullying within the party was presented to Mr Feldman in 2010.

That contradicts the chairman’s claim that he was not made aware of the allegations until August 2015.

“He really should look to his responsibility to the Conservative party and for my family and take the decision to resign from his position,” Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

The bereaved dad said the only personal correspondence he had received from Mr Feldman was a “very vague, bland letter” offering sympathy for his son’s death.

Mr Johnson also revealed that the Tories had left him to find out through the media that they had ditched an internal party probe for an independent inquiry.

In a scathing assessment of the Conservative Party’s response to the scandal, he said: “They really have not bothered to keep us in the loop at all.

“It’s almost as if they closed the door — shut the doors and closed the windows to weather the storm.

“I think they hoped this was going to go away and if it wasn’t going to go away, they were intent on a cover-up.”

The issue showed no sign of disappearing yesterday though as George Osborne faced questions on the scandal as he stood in at Prime Minister’s questions.

Grant Shapps resigned as international development minister in November in a bid to take the blame for the scandal and save Mr Feldman, longtime friend and tennis partner of David Cameron.

But Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth said: “Grant Shapps’s resignation cannot be used to draw a line under this. Lord Feldman, the man charged by David Cameron to run the Conservative Party, still has very big questions to answer.”