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Why would anyone normal want to be an MP?

30 October 2019

1:10 AM

30 October 2019

1:10 AM

Heidi Allen has announced she is standing down at the election, citing the culture of abuse and intimidation in politics as one of the reasons. In a letter to her constituents, she writes: ‘I am exhausted by the invasion into my privacy and the nastiness and intimidation that has become commonplace.

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