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Is the former Tory Minister turned Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe making another bid to step up into the Lords?
For in her latest newspaper column, she defended Boris Johnson’s much-derided decision to give a peerage to Conservative donor Peter Cruddas.
Cruddas stepped down as party co-treasurer in 2012 after being caught in a sting by undercover reporters for offering access to then PM David Cameron for a ‘premier league’ sum of £250,000.
Is the former Tory Minister turned Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe making another bid to step up into the Lords?
Widdecombe, 73, said it was an ‘outrage’ the episode was used to discredit Cruddas because the cash-for-access allegation was a ‘falsehood’. Certainly, libel judge Sir Michael Tugendhat, father of Tom, the Tory MP, found in favour of Cruddas.