Caroline Murphy wants Parliament to get flexible. After the 31-year-old heiress to a construction empire walked out of the family business in March, she was widely expected to be on Ed Miliband’s speed dial to become a Labour candidate for 2015. Yet when it emerged that Frank Dobson would retire at the next election — meaning a selection process in Murphy’s local constituency of Holborn and St Pancras — she declined to run. As a sufferer from post-traumatic stress disorder, Murphy says she can’t work full-time as an MP.
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