Louise Mensch’s local paper reports this morning that the Conservative MP will this morning announce that she is resigning her seat after struggling to balance family life with the demands of parliament.
The Northamptonshire Telegraph reports Mensch saying:
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‘I am completely devastated. It’s been unbelievably difficult to manage family life. We have been trying to find a way forward with the Prime Minister’s office but I just can’t spend as much time with my children as I want to.’
Mensch had told the Guardian last September about the pressures she was experiencing on her family life, and she left a select committee hearing with James Murdoch early to collect her children from the school run because she’d promised them she always would do on a Thursday. I understand that the resignation is unlikely to come as a shock to her constituents.
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