It would amusing to see their faces when it is revealed he resigned for allegedly declaring his wife was driving so to avoid a speeding ticket ten years ago. In politics this must amount to being the smallest scandal ever.
A Guardian survey showed around 300,000 people have committed this 'easy' offence so it should be stressed a custodial sentence must be very unlikely. The Mail suggested two years in jug was usual for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. So it is, but it is also usually associated with witness intimidation. This is hardly the same.
In fact Keir Starmer, the DPP perhaps should perhaps have not brought this prosecution at all as it barely seems to be in the public interest. Of course it is technically an offence so Huhne can only scowl privately about how a petty media campaign driven by Telegraph and Mail has led to his resignation. But the biggest joker of all is his ex-wife who certainly caused him no end of stress in revealing some collusion but now finds she too will be in the dock.
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