Vicky Price

No I am sure that is true Jess. I did grow up with a father whose mental and physical health had been destroyed by the war and that was pretty tough, but I have not lived with it as an adult.
I just find it very hard to believe that someone could hold down that succession of high-powered jobs and earn those huge salaries whilst suffering from damaged self-esteem. Surely as a senior economic adviser working with the last government you would need to be very tough?
It wasn't as if she was financially dependent. I don't really want to speculate, but it seems as if she was distraught when he left and that was when she blurted.

If I had been a member of "that" jury I would have wondered what she had to gain from the whole thing. I suspect the answer would be nothing. Therefore I would ask myself why a woman of her intelligence would do it. I think the answer is most definitely that she was coerced (bullied even) into saving his skin.

People do crazy things when they are in despair and maybe she did love CH and was distraught when he announced his affair. Did she 'lose it' for a bit causing her to act irrationally and expose the point swap? Once she had exposed that she was on a hiding to nothing!

But it wasn't as though she leaked the information immediately after he'd left her, was it? It wasn't a spur of the moment action.

A woman scorned sums it up she was determined to ruin his career but it backfired!

Something obviously pushed her over the edge Ana .

Yes - I was just responding to nanaej's post, gillybob. You're probably right, something just snapped.

It was reported that she first tried to say that one of his constituency aides took the points. That story fell apart when it emerged that the aide did not have a driving licence at the time. Later she was forced to admit that she had taken them herself.
I think it all started pretty soon after he left her, which was, of course, pretty soon after the coalition had gone into power and he had become a Minister.

Maybe she'll write a book. Maybe he will too. God help us!

She is also reported to now be in a relationship with Dennis MacShane. That should add a chapter or two.

I read the article in the Sunday Times written by the journalist she first went to, who had quite a lot of sympathy for her and felt that she really loved CH and would take him back even after all this. It seems to have taken her quite a long time to blurt this to the DM, which she did after a lot of discussions with the ST journalist and completely behind her back. An intelligent woman like her imo was being very manipulative. There was no mention of the coercion until the case came to court with makes me think it was the idea of her lawyer.

I think our views will be clouded by our own experience. If we have been married to a controlling man we will have sympathy with her but if not maybe we will see her as a woman who was determined to get her revenge at whatever cost to herself and her family.

It has been implied for a while she is in a relationship with MacShane.

Dennis Mc Shane should be in prison too!.

Maybe he could share a cell with Huhne. Perhaps there could be a new channel 4 peep show like Big Brother.

Perhaps it could be called '2 MP's, One Woman in I'm a Celebrity Prisoner, Get Me Out Of Here'