A candidate for the British Parliament has been dropped now that she's admitted she used to be a prostitute.
Christine Wheatley stunned officials when she confessed to working in Paris as a "tart." She had been short listed for the Copeland seat in Cumbria.
The Labor Party defended its decision to scratch her name from the candidacy on grounds she had failed to inform officials of her six-week career on the streets, the Times of London said.
A senior official said when Wheatley was asked whether she had any skeletons in the closet, she neglected to mention she was once a member of the oldest profession.
"She clearly does not regard this as a skeleton," he said.
Wheatley shared that view and remained defiant. She was not ashamed, she said. In fact, she said she was more ashamed that she had once been an encyclopaedia saleswoman in Germany.
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