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It couldn't happen in the Crier

"A certain Richard Timney has taken to writing to his local newspaper, the Redditch Advertiser, extolling the virtues of the constituency MP, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary. Mr Timney's letters also extend to defending controversial policies such as ID cards and to launching vigorous attacks on the Conservatives. Well it's a free country and lively political letters are meat and drink to local newspapers. "

It's just that Mr Timney also happens to be not only the Home Secretary's husband, but also her £40,000 a year "senior researcher/parliamentary assistant'."

(Source: Daily Telegraph 21.12.2008)