Former MP and former BBC reporter Martin Bell tells @BBCBreakfast he doesn't think any party will be able to "overturn" the majority in what was Owen Paterson's North Shropshire seat in the by-election to come…
The former MP stood as an anti-sleaze candidate in Tatton in Cheshire to unseat Neil Hamilton in 1997, as opposition parties stood aside (via @ionewells)
He said opposition parties in the North Shropshire by-election "might look back at the end and think maybe we should have tried something else."
He added that sleaze was an issue that "really cuts through to people in a way that others don't."
He added that sleaze was an issue that "really cuts through to people in a way that others don't."
Martin Bell added that when he served on parliament's Standards Committee ‘every single time our recommendations were voted through on the floor of the House.’
‘That didn't happen this time and I found that pretty dismaying.’
‘That didn't happen this time and I found that pretty dismaying.’
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