THE Official Monster Raving Loony Party has selected its Brecon and Radnorshire candidate and published a ’manicfesto’ with a not so subtle nod to the circumstances that has sparked the by-elction.

Llanwrtyd Wells guesthouse owner Bernice Benton will fight the seat as Lady Lily the Pink. She used to own a pink shop in the town.

Her manifesto, which the party calls a manicfesto, has set out a number of seemingly tongue in check policies such as sending gameshow host Noel Edmonds to negotiate Brexit "because he understands Deal or No Deal" and local plans such as making Llanwrtyd’s famous Man V Horse race and Bog Snorkelling event Olympic Sports.

But it is her proposals on saving money on MP’s office refurbishments which are likely to raise most eyes in the by-election brought about after Conservative Chris Davies claimed for £700 photographs for his Builth Wells constituency office under the Parliamentary expenses scheme in April 2016. He had been entitled to claim the money for the photographs, but not to create the false invoices.

However Loony candidate Lily the Pink is proposing a simpler, and cheaper, office refurbishment scheme.

Her policy states: "To save money on office refurbishments for local MPs, it is proposed that office artwork, particularly cute photos will be taken with a phone camera and printed off at Boots chemist before blue tacking to the wall, invoices should be well under the £50 mark and therefore require no need to engage in complex and confusing accounting practices."

An earlier policy, Lady Lily, suggested she would support public funding for all self-employed people. That policy stated: "£10,000 decorating budgets for all self employed people’s places of work even if they could work from home - not just MPS."

Ms Benton had been a Liberal Democrat candidate at the 2012 Powys council elections.

Last week it was announced 10,005 voters in Brecon and Radnorshire had signed the recall petition which has led to the by-election

Though Mr Davies was entitled to claim the cost of the photographs he created two false invoices, to split the cost between two expense accounts, rather than submit the original. That amounted to a breach of the Parliamentary Standards Act and once Mr Davies was sentenced, having admitted submitting a false expenses claim, and attempting to do so, the recall process was triggered.

He has apologised and said he made a mistake early in his Parliamentary career after he was first elected in 2015. As Mr Davies repaid the amount for the one false invoice that was submitted no public money was lost.

So far the Liberal Democrats have selected Welsh party leader Jane Dodds as a candidate and Brecon town councillor Tom Davies is the Labour candidate.

Chris Davies is the Conservative candidate.