James Forsyth James Forsyth

An expenses role-reversal

Michael Crick has news  that Ian Gibson may stand in the Norwich North by-election after all. So we are faced with the fascinating possibility of seeing how an MP his national party has deemed unfit to stand because of his expenses does in an election. It would be quite ironic if the result of first expenses by-election was determined by someone who his party had put beyond the pale.

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