A Tory parliamentary candidate has been caught using a member of staff to pose as a constituent – in an election leaflet calling for honesty.

The newsletter – titled ‘Honesty on the Economy’ – features prospective MP Jacob Rees-Mogg talking with a blonde woman on the streets of the Wansdyke constituency, in North-East Somerset. The caption, also used on the North East Somerset Conservatives’ website, simply refers to ‘Jacob talking to a lady in Midsomer Norton’.

However she is in fact Fiona Tyrrell, an employee from Rees-Mogg’s London-based investment firm, Somerset Capital Management LLP.
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In March he was forced to apologise after plagiarising an editorial from a national newspaper for an election leaflet. And in May he was caught using staff to write an attack on Gordon Brown which he claimed to be his own words.

… more at the Daily Mail

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