Newly elected Lib Dem quits Edinburgh council after her house is put up for sale one day after winning as a 'local' champion

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Lib Dem elected to Edinburgh Council last week has quit after her house was put on the market just one day after running a campaign about living locally.

Louise Spence has stood down over a change in "circumstances". Her party said that for personal reasons she would be spending time outside of Edinburgh, but declined to say if it was abroad.Her decision to quit the council came after a Daily Record investigation into the timing of her house sale.Senior Labour councillor in Edinburgh Stephen Jenkinson said: “This is the most outrageous thing I’ve ever heard of in local politics."Tory MSP Miles Briggs said: "This is quite unbelievable."Spence won in the Colinton/Fairmilehead ward on November 14 after a hard fought election that saw her take the seat from Labour.

A key part of her campaign was trumpeting her local roots and criticising rivals for living in different parts of the city.In one leaflet, she said the ward deserved a councillor “who lives here”, with an arrow next to the Colinton district where she lived.

The leaflet boasted she was a “real local champion” who would be a “local councillor who lives here”. She also attacked the Labour candidate for living in Sciennes and the sitting Tory councillor who she said lives in Stockbridge.But we found out Spence’s home in Colinton was put on the market on November 15th - the day after the election.