Kelvin MacKenzie confirms in his Sun column today that he won’t stand in the Haltemprice & Howden by-election:
“…the clincher for me was the money. Clearly The Sun couldn’t put up the cash — so I was going to have to rustle up a maximum of £100,000 to conduct my campaign as candidate for the Red Mist Party…
…Right now, with a divorce behind me and a couple of poor investments — I’m sure the C5 will catch on one day — a hundred grand looks more attractive in my wallet than being spent on the good folk of East Riding.
And, more importantly, there is the issue of my personal health.
All the papers are carrying a story that says people in the North have a 20 per cent higher chance of dying from cancer than those in the South.
Frankly, Howden, I am too young to die.
The truth is that I would have been a cr*p MP.
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