Her husband, Richard Timney, who caused controversy by watching two porn films and then claiming for them on his wife's parliamentary expenses, lives in her Redditch constituency and works for her.
In the 2005 general election the key results were: Labour – 21,097 – 44.9% Tories – 15,638 – 33.2% Lib Dems – 7,616 – 16.2% Greens – 1,252 – 2.7% Last month the Eastern Daily Press looked at the results of the June local elections in the wards in the North Norwich constituency and worked out what the results would be if it had been a byelection.
MPs' standard response is that parliamentary recess is no summer holiday but an opportunity to spend time in their constituencies and work hard for local voters.
Instead of doing the hard work of crafting a revenue-neutral tax reform, which requires taking on powerful political constituencies and working with Democrats, Republicans will fall back on arguing that the economic effects of the tax legislation will be so powerful that it will pay for itself with growth.
Accounts show that Francis Chichester Ltd - ostensibly a map publishing company - received £445,000 from EU coffers 'in connection with secretarial and assistant services for the European Parliament, constituency and committee work'.
This positive predisposition may exist because of the MP's constituency and parliamentary work (Cain et al., 1987) or because of their attachment to the MP's party.
Announcing her suspension, the Conservative Party cited concerns that she would not be doing parliamentary and constituency work while camping out in the Australian jungle.
Lady Annabel, Goldsmith's mother, is one of his biggest political donors handing him £77,600 last year for both his mayoral campaign and constituency work.
There is a huge and diverse constituency around this work, this advocacy work, this activism.
Labour is now being hollowed out by defeat: it has now lost 13 Holyrood seats on top of the 40 Westminster seats last year; with those go the output, constituency work and public profiles of those MPs and MSPs, and their incomes and their staff.
