The former defender, who played for Tottenham and Arsenal in the capital, has been courted by the party and recently had lunch with the party chairman, Grant Shapps, amid suggestions he could run for mayor.
I wonder if the man chosen to play the charismatic Simpson – who won Sports Personality of the Year in 1965 – will come from Shane's trusted pack of actors?
David Hopkins – senior advisory manager: charities and grant making, at CAF philanthropy services David heads up the Charities and Grant-Making Solutions team at the Charities Aid Foundation.
A Labour candidate has written to the director of public prosecutions calling for an investigation over edits made to his Wikipedia article by an account purportedly linked to the Tory party chairman, Grant Shapps.
Pressure has been mounting on Abbott to grant a conscience vote on the issue, but the prime minister has consistently said that the issue will be settled by the Coalition party room.
Grant Shapps, the Conservative chairman, said: "It's clear that Labour doesn't trust the British public to have their say on their country's future".
Grant Shapps has a single word to describe the reality of the housing market in 2010 for millions of young people: "horrendous".
The panic in the British establishment provoked by Edward's affair with Simpson and his apparent belief that he could get away with marrying her and remain king has been widely reported.
Clegg spoke out against Cameron's plans after Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, told the conference that the prime minister's strategy would fail because there would not be a major treaty change in time for his timetable.
But 20 years ago, you couldn't move for thrillers in provincial theatres: always set in country houses or smart London flats, always starring an actor off the TV in neckerchief and fawn slacks (Gerald Harper or Jack Hedley or Bill Simpson), always featuring a drinks trolley, an attractive fiance, a best friend and a stalwart detective who appears after the interval to investigate the crime.
Grant and Clegg were speaking at the launch of a CER report that calls for a series of reforms.
