Theresa May backs MPs investigated over 2015 election spending

Theresa May has backed Conservative MPs at the centre of police inquiries into electoral spending irregularities, after a call for them to be barred from standing for re-election.Fourteen police forces have sent files to the Crown Prosecution Service outlining allegations of spending limits being breached during the 2015 general election campaign.Dennis Skinner, the veteran Labour MP, said in the House of Commons that allowing Tory MPs currently under investigation to stand again risked bringing