The Conservative candidate in the Hartlepool by-election has spent a decade away from the constituency – including time in tax haven the Cayman Islands.
Jill Mortimer, a land-owning barrister from North Yorkshire, admitted she had not “spent a lot of time” in the town. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives had selected a candidate who has “more connection with tax havens than Hartlepool town centre”.
Local Tory voters complained the party had “thrown everything away on someone outside the area”. There’s no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of Mrs Mortimer or her family.
But a biography written for the old website for her farmhouse bed and breakfast reveals that before moving to Thirsk, some 30 miles from
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