JOURNALIST Michael Crick has set up a scheme to make sure fewer ‘rotten apple’ MPs get elected after a series of political scandals. Chris Pincher, right, resigned as deputy chief whip last week having allegedly groped two guests at the Carlton Club. Crick will monitor how political parties decide on their candidates.
“In safe seats they are choosing candidates who are effectively the MP for 20 years with very little scrutiny,” Crick told us. In Unherd, Crick writes that “more MPs have gone to jail in the last two decades than at any time in the last 200 years. Voters deserve better than the likes of Pincher, [Charlie] Elphicke and the rest of their disgraced colleagues”. “We have the right to be angry... they should never have been picked in the first place.”
