Elphicke’s wife read 1,000 texts between him and ‘sex attack victim’

Former Tory MP Charlie Elphicke ‘badmouthed’ a Parliamentary worker to chief whips and lied about his infatuation with her, a court heard. Elphicke, 49, admitted he hid his feelings for the woman, then in her 20s, from party officials to ‘protect himself’ from parliamentary gossip. He is accused of shoving his hand down the top of the alleged victim in the Palace of Westminster and running his hand up her thigh in 2016. The married father-of-two also faces a third…