Could Sally Bercow join her Speaker husband in the House?

 
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22 March 2013

Sally Bercow rides again. Just weeks after the Labour Party announced that its shortlist for a candidate in Harrow East will be exclusively female, the Londoner hears that the wife of the Speaker wants to put herself up for it.

Former journalist and hapless tweeter Bercow, who is currently being sued by Lord McAlpine for libel, is a long-standing Labour supporter. The Harrow East seat only just slipped into Conservative hands at the last election, going to Bob Blackman with a majority of around 3,000 votes, having been solidly Labour since 1997.

Last summer Bercow told the Daily Telegraph she was interested in standing, saying she “wouldn’t want to walk into a safe seat … I would love to fight a marginal seat and win it back because that would enable me to prove myself.”

If elected, she could keep her eye on her husband while at work.

The press officer for the London regions dodged the question of whether she had thrown her hat into the ring. “It’s too early to say who’s in the running,” he said. “We haven’t kicked off the process so we don’t have the nominations yet.”

The Londoner asked Bercow’s agent whether the I’m a Celebrity star would indeed be having a tilt at Harrow East, only to be met with the most eloquent of non-denials: total silence.

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