Vicky Pryce conspired to reveal Chris Huhne’s penalty points offence because she wanted voters to be aware of his “true character”, jurors heard today.
Her former husband, who by 2011 was a Cabinet minister, “did not deserve to be in the position of immense responsibility”, Ms Pryce told a journalist.
She conspired with Isabel Oakeshott, the Sunday Times political editor, to hatch a “Grand Plan”to get Huhne’s offence in 2003 into the public domain.
At Christophers restaurant in Covent Garden Ms Pryce first told Ms Oakeshott that her former husband had “pressured” her to take his speeding penalty points, Southwark Crown Court was told this morning. Ms Oakeshott said Ms Pryce had been in a “fragile state and very upset about the break-up of her