James Gray still in the soup

The Tory MP for North Wiltshire may have survived an attempt to deselect him, but he is not in the clear yet.

A couple of days ago the Daily Mail claimed:

Tory MP James Gray is at the centre of a fresh controversy with the revelation that he is using his Commons expenses to support the cancer-stricken wife he dumped for his mistress instead of paying her out of his wages.

The Wiltshire North MP is paying his wife Sarah £2,400 a month from his Commons staff allowance even though she ceased to work as his secretary two years ago. In that time he has paid her a total of nearly £60,000 from his expenses.

Particularly diverting is this detail:

a senior Conservative at Westminster said Mr Gray could find himself in the bizarre position of facing a claim for unfair dismissal from his wife, even though it is alleged she has not worked for him for two years despite being paid.

Ludwig Wittgenstein writes: My brain hurts.