Caroline Spelman has puzzled me

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Caroline Spelman has puzzled me

By Mark Pack | Tue 17th June 2008 - 1:12 pm

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You see, Caroline Spelman said:

I accepted the opportunity to have part-time administrative and secretarial help from Tina Hayne because I had advertised my home as constituency office.

But then her home was neither in Westminster, nor in her constituency but in another part of the country completely – Kent. Did she really advertise this as her office? It will be interesting to see if anyone can produce evidence to show that. I’m sceptical but open to persuasion; if there’s evidence, let’s see it.

Hat tip: Ministry of Truth who has got other questions too.

UPDATE: Parliament’s Standards Commissioner, John Lyon, has announced this afternoon that he is going to investigate Caroline Spelman.

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2 Comments

Paul Walter 17th Jun '08 - 1:51pm

Her site on http://www.archive.org only goes back to January 24th 2001 where the contact address is the Meriden Conservative Association.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.carolinespelman.com/
Paul Walter 17th Jun '08 - 1:54pm

More here

http://politicalhackuk.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-theres-more.html#links

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