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    Sally Bercow tweet libelled Lord McAlpine, high court rules

    Commons Speaker's wife agrees to settle with Tory peer after falsely linking him with allegation of

    child sexual abuse

    Sally Bercow tweeted: 'Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*'. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

    Sally Bercow said she was "surprised and disappointed" after the high court ruled that she defamed the

    Tory peer Lord McAlpine by falsely suggesting on Twitter that he was a paedophile.

    The Commons Speaker's wife had always defended her tweet - "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*"

    - about the former Tory treasurer in November last year, following allegations on BBC 2's Newsnight about an

    unnamed high-profile politician. But on Friday she admitted that she regretted her "conversational and

    mischievous" message and said: "On this, I have learned my own lesson the hard way."

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