Last week’s own goal in which a council leader remarked that the Conservative shadow cabinet “haven’t run a piss-up in a brewery” has renewed the promotion hopes of one Tory backbencher. Positions within licensed industry bodies have raised the prospect of a return to the front bench for former shadow Welsh secretary Nigel Evans. Speaking exclusively to [...]
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Nigel Evans stars in "hide behind the frontbencher"
Tory minnow Nigel Evans MP has been happy to hide in the shadow of frontbencher Alan Duncan in the wake of their unguarded comments on expenses. What an opportune moment to revisit Evans’ pious remarks on the expenses scandal, which were posted on his parliamentary website: Even though I was the 570th lowest spending MP [...]
