Former Tory MP Neil Parish plots political comeback

By David Parsley
Published 26th Aug 2022, 04:55 BST
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Neil Parish is plotting a remarkable political comeback. The disgraced former Tory MP, who quit after being found watching porn in the House of Commons after claiming he was searching for a combine harvester online, is looking for redemption.

And he hopes to find that by standing as an independent in the Tiverton and Honiton seat he was forced out of earlier this year.

This would mean overturning the 6,144 majority won in spectacular style by the Liberal Democrat's Richard Foord, who overturned Mr Parish’s own 24,239 majority in June – the largest ever majority lost in by-election history.

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