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Earlier this week, The Londoner waited with bated breath for news of Iain Duncan Smith’s move from the Department of Work and Pensions, after that special adviser’s phone conversation overheard on the 16:15 from Portsmouth. Now IDS may have to watch out for his parliamentary seat. Fearsome campaigner Marina Pepper tells us she’s going to stand against him in his constituency of Chingford, which he has represented since 1992.

Pepper (nee Baker) has quite a CV. A former Page 3 girl who stepped out with Matthew Freud and Daniel Craig, Pepper gave up the champagne — and a stint as a white witch — for serious politics, becoming Lib-Dem Mayor for Telscombe, then joining Class War.

“Iain is the architect of all this misery and I think I’m possibly the one to give him a good spanking at the polls,” she told The Londoner. “What he’s done is attack the most vulnerable people in society. Most of us have been affected by illness or disability in our family life, and I happen to believe we should be looking after these people.”

Duncan Smith had a comfortable grip on Chingford for years but Pepper is undoubtedly tenacious. She became a poster girl for the anti-fracking movement after photographs of her being carried away from the Balcombe protest site in Sussex hit the front page.

Pepper thinks she has a chance. “Labour got so few votes in the constituency last time that there’s no way they’re going to pull it off,” she says, “and the Liberal Democrats won’t even get out of bed for the area. But it deserves a good MP: somebody to represent everyone. That’s what anarchists do.” Viva la revolución.