By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:29 EST, 24 September 2012 | UPDATED: 15:52 EST, 24 September 2012 Cuts: Claire Perry, MP for Devizes, arriving at the Crescent Centre, Bristol, for the start of the tribunal A Tory MP today told an employment tribunal she sacked her best friend from a constituency office job because she was 'incapable' of carrying out her role. Claire Perry, MP for Devizes, Wiltshire, who has regularly spoken up for the Coalition’s austerity program, made a cut of her own when Penelope Nurick lost her job in a 'staff reshuffle'. Mrs Nurick was one of Mrs Perry’s seconders when she stood as the Conservative Party candidate in 2010, and had worked in her office for two years.
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Claire Perry, Conservative MP for Devizes, Wiltshire, has often backed the Coalition's austerity programme
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She made her own cut when she sacked administrator Penelope Nurick during 'staff reshuffle'
She was formally sacked from her administrative role on February 23 2012 when Mrs @placeholder, 48, replaced her with another employee in the constituency office.