Disgraced British peer Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare has made a bid to rejoin the Conservative Party - though his application has yet to be processed.
Archer was expelled by the Tories in 2000 after he lied in a libel case. He served two years in jail for perjury.
Party headquarters said it understood that the peer has spoken to officials in Cambridgeshire, where he has a country home.
Less than an hour before confirming Lord Archer's move, party HQ had rebutted a report suggesting that he had made an approach to the association in Vauxhall, south London, where he has a luxury penthouse apartment.
A report in The Timesnewspaper, based on an interview with the peer printed in The Australiannewspaper, suggested that the best-selling author and one-time Tory deputy chairman recently rejoined the Vauxhall association.
Since his release from prison, the peer has been entitled to sit in the House of Lords as a "non-affiliated" peer.