The appalling murder of Ann Widdecombe left many of her media admirers understandably upset – but the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson took things harder than most.
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The columnist lashed out at Adam Boulton for calling Widdecombe an “old maid” and a “spinster” in a Sky News discussion of her death – before its awful details were revealed.
Though Boulton posted that he was sorry, Pearson wrote: “Apology not accepted… it was unforgivable.” She did not, however, attack the pundit who called Widdecombe “the Hattie Jacques of the Commons… a matron of honour” – probably because that phrase appeared in her own obituary for the former MP.
