A senior Labour MP said the Conservatives were wasting police time by complaining that the Tamworth by-election candidate didn't live locally.
A senior Labour MP said the Conservatives were wasting police timeLabour has been reported to the police by the Tories for claiming its candidate in one of this week's crucial by-elections lives locally, sparking a major row just before polling day.
The official nomination form for trade union activist Ms Edwards, 35, declared that her home address was in Tamworth. Ms Edwards has spent most of her life in the leafy Birmingham suburb of Moseley, 25 miles from Tamworth. Sir Bill, a long-serving solicitor, added: 'Although the Labour Party appears to assert that Ms Edwards lives in Tamworth, the law requires the nomination papers to have the candidate's 'home address' at the time it is completed.
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