ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Michael Portillo has said that Party Chairman Caroline Spelman should quit. The former Defence Secretary made his intervention after it was revealed that Mrs Spelman's former secretary, Sally Hammond, revealed that she was "shocked" at how much Tina Haynes, the...
nigel hastilow (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
A very curious statement from Conservative leader David Cameron does his party chairman Caroline Spelman no good at all. He is apparently "standing by her" over the difficulties in deciding if Tina Haynes was her secretary as well as being her kids' nanny. At least, he's standing by her just so long as she has clearly done nothing wrong. In which case why wouldn't you stand by her? If, on the other...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
I've read some terrible rubbish over the last day or so about Caroline Spelman paying he live in nanny to work as her Constituency secretary during the day (Including some right leaning Blogs). For one thing this is very old news, for another, Tina Haynes (the nanny) did act as Caroline's Constituency secretary for the period in question. Spelman's Constituency phone number was her home number at the...
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
This is the full text of a statement released to the Press Association by Tina Haynes, the former nanny to Conservative Party Chairman Caroline Spelman. During the period of 1997 to 2002 Mrs Caroline Spelman employed me at her home address and during the period of 1997 to 1998, I had two roles, one helping Mrs Spelman with childcare and another providing secretarial help to her as a MP. My roles and...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
You can tell that it's been a quiet news week when the media go into a frenzy over a Tory MPs expenses from ten years ago. Caroline Spelman has been accused of paying her nanny, Tina Haynes, from her expenses for the period 1997-98. Sounds bad doesn't it? But, how does this sound: Caroline Spelman had a live in nanny at the time who was paid to carryout secretarial work for Caroline while the kids...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The nanny at the centre of an expenses row releases a statement saying she did do secretarial work for a senior Tory MP.
