Hello. it s adam in the studio. and it is chris in birmingham. and just so i don t get lonely in here, i m joined by some friends of the podcast. ailbhe rea is associate editor at bloomberg. hello, ailbhe. hello, thank you for having me. and nick watt is political editor of newsnight. hello, nick. hello, adam. this means we ve got bbc one and bbc two sewn up tonight. genius move. very clever move. right, the first story we re going to talk about is about the mp mark menzies, who represents a seat in the north west of england and, until wednesday night, he was a conservative mp. he s now been stripped of the whip and is an independent and the claims were made in the times newspaper on wednesday night. the newspaper is alleging that, in the recent past, he made a phone call at 3:15am to his former campaign manager, who is 78 years old. and the allegation is that mark menzies said, i am locked in a flat and i need £5,000
Medical expenses and called a 78 year old aide at 3,15am, asking for help because he d been locked up by what he called bad people demanding money for his release. mr menzies told the paper he strongly disputes the allegations. labour says rishi sunak and the conservative party have serious questions to answer. let s speak to our polital correspondent, henry zeffman, in westminster. what is the times alleging? you are right to say alleging to these are just allegations at this stage but they are also pretty serious allegations and frankly pretty peculiar allegations. what the times is alleging that back in december mark menzies, the conservative mp for fylde in lancashire since 2010, found a former campaign manager, a 78 year old former campaign manager at quarter past three in the morning and he said what he called bad
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