A legal challenge over the election of Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael as Orkney and Shetland MP has been refused by judges. They said the petitioners had "not proved beyond reasonable doubt" that Mr Carmichael had committed an "illegal practice". What was the case about? Four of Alistair Carmichael's constituents raised the legal action under the Representation of the People Act. They said he misled the electorate over a leaked memo, published in the Daily Telegraph on 3 April this year. The contents of the memo claimed that SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, would secretly prefer Tory leader David Cameron as prime minister rather than his Labour opponent Ed...
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