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Kirkbride defends employing family

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The Conservative MP for Bromsgrove, Julie Kirkbride has been speaking to the press about why she employed her sister - even though she lives more than 100 miles from the constituency - and allowed her brother to live rent-free in her taxpayer-funded second home.

In an interview with the BBC's Alex Bushill, she defended the way she employs her sister, and says her fate as an MP is up to her local voters.

Her husband, Andrew MacKay, also a Conservative MP, has already had to stand down.

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