Politics latest news: Police must investigate ex-Tory MP over £5,000 'ransom' phone call, say Labour
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Today at her neat bungalow in genteel Lytham St Annes, the lifelong Tory activist said she did not want to talk about the incident, which she is understood to have found 'deeply distressing'.
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