McAlpine sues Speaker's wife
Lord McAlpine is suing the Speaker's wife Sally Bercow for £50,000 over an allegedly libellous tweet that he claims wrongly linked him to claims of child abuse, her lawyers told ITV News.
Sally Bercow: 'It was not libellous - just foolish'
Sally Bercow, wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, has continued to tweet about reports she is receive a letter from Lord McAlpine's legal team.
She maintains her post was "not a libellous tweet":
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