Indeed.
I will bet you any money that he thought 'I'm an MP and they won't have the stones to actually go through with it.............So I'll shout about how unfair it is and plead my innocence and they will back down'
When it became apparent to him that they in fact were not going to back down when he entered court he had a quick rethink and coughed to it.

If he'd have admitted it, he would have had a while out of the limelight then staged a comeback later on. Peter Mandleson did this multiple times, when he got busted for something he just copped it, lay low for a bit and then re-emerged.

Huhne has shot his career to pieces. He would have been a potential leader of the Lib Dems otherwise.

Perhaps she's simply confusing marital coercion and marital coition?

What is interesting is the fact that there are none so so bitter as a woman scorned.

This came out after he spit with his wife after having an afaair.

Not only was she so angry she destroyed his political life and future income ( and possibly hers as she would have been entitled to some maintenance etc off him) but she risked being convicted herself.

If you read the emails between Huhne and his son you can see the enourmous damage that it has done to their relationship.
It is a personal tragedy all around and when you look back at it his wife was motivated by revenge which has damaged a lot of people ( it is worth bearing in mind that he could have been a genuine challenger to Clegg) that has now gone and does not leave many alternatives to clegg the blue.

... and after the next election, the range of choice for leader will be even smaller.

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