FIFTEEN police forces recently gave the Crown Prosecution Service evidence against 30 Conservatives suspected of expenses fraud in the 2015 General Election. The number of parliamentary seats involved is between 12 and 20.

The alleged fraud was to hide local campaigning over-spending, typically by pretending it was part of national campaigning which has a separate legal limit. 

The implication is that some Conservatives who won marginal seats in the 2015 General Election may have fraudulently over-spent.
The CPS must decide whether to bring numerous prosecutions that, if successful, could each force a by-election. 

The Government’s majority is only 12. To protect her majority Theresa May has called a General Election three years early to try to win more seats.

Repeatedly since July 2016 Mrs May has promised not to call an early election. 

But after triggering Article 50 she broke her promise. 

Brexit has a two-year time limit. We leave the EU by the end of March 2019 whether she has negotiated a deal or not. 

May is wasting two months on election campaigning instead of negotiating Brexit.

But a Conservative victory cannot stop electoral fraud prosecutions. A re-elected May government would be mired in criminal scandal.

I like my local Conservative MP. But I must vote her out to end a dishonest government. 

I would rather vote for the greater good, not the lesser evil. 
But this June I must choose whoever is best placed to defeat a Conservative.

We are only 12 seats away from ending Conservative misrule!

HUGH JAEGER
Park Close, Oxford