Vicky Pryce, who was jailed for falsely accepting the speeding points of her former husband Chris Huhne, has quietly returned to an official role advising the Government.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has approved the decision to appoint Dr Pryce to a panel of economists, it was confirmed last night. She was sentenced last March to eight months in jail for perverting the course of justice, and served 62 days.
Dr Pryce headed the Government’s economic service but decided to move to the private sector to remove a potential conflict of interest when Mr Huhne, her husband at the time, was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in 2010.
The couple’s acrimonious marriage split led to revelations that she had falsely accepted