As the Trump-Russia affair overwhelms the grosser Weinstein scandal in the United States, exactly the opposite is happening in Britain, where a spreadsheet detailing sexual misconduct by Conservative members of Parliament caused the resignation of the defense secretary yesterday but eclipsed allegations that dark money from Russia was involved in manipulating the Brexit vote last year.

As yet, there is no competition between the two scandals, because the abuse revelations constitute a crisis for a government already paralyzed by the Brexit negotiations. The unsubstantiated sex dossier, or “spreadsheet of shame” as the tabloids call it, has not yet been published in full because of Britain’s libel laws. However, other ministers are expected to follow Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, who has admitted acting inappropriately on at least one occasion—a hand on the knee of conservative commentator Julia Hartley-Brewer years ago. Damian Green, the first secretary of state and effectively Prime Minister Theresa May’s deputy, is fighting for his political life after a separate accusation that he made sexual advances towards a young Tory activist, which he furiously denies.

If May loses Green, a close ally since they worked together at the Home Office, she could find that her premiership becomes unworkable. She looked very weak in Parliament yesterday when confronted by the talented, young Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who disclosed that three times in the past she had personally warned May that party whips, rather than investigating sexual abuse, were using the allegations to threaten miscreant MPs, a claim which visibly shook the prime minister. It was plain to the House that she had done nothing, and that she was to some degree complicit in covering up the abuse by male colleagues. (May said that she would review the allegation, and sexual harassment claims should be brought to the police, not party whips.)

The tabloids are in full cry, and there may be more revelations over the weekend. While it was always said that Labour party members were likelier to succumb to financial misconduct and the Tories more prone to sex scandals, it seems unlikely that the Labour opposition will be completely unscathed by the developments over the next few days—indeed, Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins was suspended from the party yesterday. What this scandal has done, apart from signal a very big change in the power relationships between men and women in U.K. public life, is deliver another shock to the British polity.

Whatever the grim necessity of these revelations, they contribute to a sense of decline and institutional failure, and thus to an increasingly dangerous lack of trust. But the rot in Westminster goes beyond alleged sexual harassment, to other forms of subversion that have yet to be exposed. As May prepared to go to the House of Commons for the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions, there was a very significant development in the continuing but almost unnoticed investigations by a handful of journalists—most operating outside the mainstream media—into the financing of the Vote Leave campaign in 2016. After inquiries led by the independent media outlet OpenDemocracy, Britain’s Electoral Commission announced an investigation to see whether an insurance entrepreneur named Arron Banks broke the law by allegedly channeling $11 million in loans and gifts to a campaign for the U.K. to leave the E.U. (Banks, in response, tweeted, “Gosh I’m terrified.”)

The source of the money is somewhat of a mystery. OpenDemocracy, led by editor Mary Fitzgerald, carried out an analysis by Iain Campbell and Alistair Sloan of Banks’s financial affairs that allegedly showed he was not nearly as rich as he claimed, and suggested the $11 million came from elsewhere. Some suspect the source is Russia, whose dark money has allegedly been used to fund operations of destabilization across Western democracies. While Labour MPs Chris Bryant and Ben Bradshaw have consistently promoted the need for scrutiny on this and other possible Russian influence, Banks mocked the idea. “Allegations of Brexit being funded by the Russians . . . are complete bollocks from beginning to end,” he said. Meanwhile, his representatives tried to menace OpenDemocracy. “Make sure you get it right—it’s clearly a political hatchet job and our lawyers will take action if you get one bit wrong,” read a recent e-mail to Fitzgerald.