MP Claudia Webb loses appeal

Evidence of a woman’s sexual affair with MP Claudia Webbe’s partner has given the politician a motive for harassment and not a defence. Webbe, 57, allegedly branded Michelle Merritt a ‘slag’, threatened to throw acid at her and said she would post naked photos of her to her family. When the now-independent MP for Leicester East was convicted of harassment last November the court did not hear that Ms Merritt and the politician were both having a sexual relationship with…