The Conservative Party is refusing to pay a £215,000 bill after one of its local election candidates rigged a poll using hundreds of fictitious voters to oust Europe’s first black woman mayor.
The party went to the High Court yesterday to challenge an attempt to make it pay the costs of a scandal that pressured the Government into introducing tough new reforms to make it harder to steal elections.
The Tory candidate, who was jailed with five accomplices, was penniless and so the national Conservative Party is being asked to pay the defeated Labour candidate’s outstanding legal bill for exposing the fraud.
The Conservatives are challenging the powers of the election commissioner, Richard Mawrey, QC, who once complained that Britain’s lax system of postal voting “would disgrace a banana republic”.
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