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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Patrick Hill & Sophie Halle-Richards

Ex-Greater Manchester MP suspended over sexting row engaged to beauty therapist half his age

A former Greater Manchester MP who was suspended after he was caught sending lewd texts to a teenage girl has announced his engagement to a woman half his age.

Simon Danczuk, 56, represented Rochdale between 2010 and 2017 but was thrown out by the Labour party after the scandal emerged following his marriage breakdown with wife, Karen.

Twice-wed Simon has now proposed to his beauty therapist partner, Claudine Uwamahoro, 28, just seven months after they first met in her home city of Kigali, Rwanda, the Mirror reports.

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