MP cautioned after election results slip on Twitter
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been cautioned by police for prematurely revealing election results on Twitter.
The Bristol East MP, who was made Labour's "Twitter tsar" by Gordon Brown, leaked the results of a sample of postal votes on the social networking site days before the general election.
McCarthy boasted that Labour was leading in her constituency and provided the figures to support her claims.
But it is illegal to reveal the votes cast before the end of polling day and she later admitted she had been "thoughtless".
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "Police have confirmed that they have cautioned a man and a woman, both from Bristol, following an investigation into alleged election fraud earlier this year under the Representation of the People Act 1983."