‘It’s completely wrong’: falsely accused Tory MP attacks legal aid cuts

The former Commons deputy speaker Nigel Evans, who spent his life savings defending himself against false accusations of rape and sexual abuse, has said he would now vote against the legal aid cuts brought in by the Conservative-led coalition.Neill, a barrister, has said the original impulse may have been to cut down “on some instances of needless expenditure” but the pendulum has swung too far.Evans, the Tory MP for the Ribble Valley in Lancashire, spent about £130,000 in 2014