Labour MP Fiona Onasanya who lied to avoid speeding charge compares herself to Jesus
Henry Zeffman, Political Correspondent | Will Humphries
December 20 2018, 5:00pm, The Times
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Fiona Onasanya leaving the Old Bailey, where she was convicted of perverting the course of justiceDOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA
The Labour MP found guilty of lying to police to avoid a speeding charge has compared herself to Jesus and Moses in a defiant message to her colleagues.
Fiona Onasanya, 35, was suspended and urged to quit the Commons by the Labour Party yesterday after her conviction for perverting the course of justice.
The solicitor lied “persistently and deliberately” to police about who was driving her car in an attempt to avoid penalty points after it was recorded at 41mph in a 30mph zone near Thorney in her Peterborough constituency.
But in a message sent to other Labour MPs on various WhatsApp groups on Thursday morning and leaked to
The Times, Onasanya hinted she would not quit, saying this was instead “the beginning of the…