Now I have always tended to see Blairite MP's as political whores but this is ridiculous!
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=614574Educated at a girls' grammar school and Oxford University, Christine Wheatley, a trainee barrister, seemed to be a model New Labour candidate. There was just one detail missing from her Curriculum Vitae: she had been a prostitute in Paris.
Like a scene from Belle de Jour , Ms Wheatley, 53, had enjoyed a brief secret life as a French tart. And like the classic 1960s film character starring Catherine Deneuve, Ms Wheatley saw nothing to apologise for. "Yes, I worked as a tart. I'm not ashamed," said Ms Wheatley yesterday. "It was before I found proper work. I hit Paris with £300. I didn't have much to spend. I had to find money.
Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, once boasted of a life as a Riviera gigolo but Labour Party officials took a dim view when Ms Wheatley revealed all about her past to a local newspaper.
Her name was hurriedly removed from the shortlist for the safe Labour seat in Copeland, a rural constituency in Cumbria, being vacated by Jack Cunningham, a former cabinet minister who is standing down at the next election.