Parkers Pen -Herald Express- Monday 10th September 2007
I am taking you inside the murky world of Torbay politics today and a spat between Torbay MP Adrian Sanders and his arch Tory rival Marcus Wood.
The Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for the Bay has been trying to bring into question Mr Sanders's support for the Kingskerswell bypass - and he has even resorted to using the Freedom of Information Act in his quest.The latest squabble - obviously not the first and by no means the last between the two adversaries - follows a recent letter from Mr Wood to the Herald Express letters page which carried the headline 'Lib Dem hypocrisy over bypass call'.
In it, he quotes Mr Sanders 'from a couple of years ago' as saying 'a new road could be a passport to easy commuting for thousands of Bay workers, leading to yet more congestion', raising questions over his support for the link road.
The quotes, however, were from a Herald Express article in October 2002, where Mr Sanders warned that 'without job creation' as well as a new bypass workers could be taking the new road out of the Bay. He also said then that there was a clear need for the new road.
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