Candidates cast the wrong way round

IT’S comforting to know that the infallible Terry Prone can also be guilty of some journalistic howlers.

She claims in her column (November 8) that Phil Woolas, who has been banned from the House of Commons, was a Liberal Democrat candidate in the last British general election.

In fact, Woolas was elected as the Labour party candidate, but an appeal to the High Court by the Liberal Democrats’ candidate in the same constituency, Elwyn Watkin, has resulted in Woolas being suspended as an MP and barred from holding public office again for three years.