Former Tory MP ‘lied to voters and forged signatures on ballot papers’

  A former Tory MP who defected to UKIP lied to voters and forged signatures on ballot papers in a bid to help colleagues fight local council elections, a court heard. Dr Bob Spink, 69, allegedly took a ‘casual and misleading approach’ while canvassing on doorsteps ahead of the polls last May. Voters reported seeing ‘a very large man’, UKIP election agent James Parkin, 38, accompanying Spink collecting signatures, Southwark Crown Court heard. Spink was elected as the Conservative MP…