Questions grow over Labour MP Diana Johnson’s expenses
A few days ago Dizzy Thinks spotted an oddity in the expense claims of Hull North Labour MP Diana Johnson. … Read the full post »
MPs’ expenses
Read my posts about MPs’ expenses, and in particular the scandal over expense claims which broke during the 2005-10 Parliament.
Will £66,000 expenses claim sink Labour MP Dawn Butler?
Labour MP Dawn Butler has a recorded of controversial expense claims, including for a whirlpool bath, and has also voted to block expense reforms. … Read the full post »
Good news, bad news: Nicholas Soames MP (Conservative)
Good news: the Conservative MP for Mid-Sussex has more than halved the number of outside jobs he does in addition to being an MP. Bad news: he’s still doing three, paying over £350,000 per year in total. … Read the full post »
Eric Pickles: that Question Time appearance
Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MP crashes and burns on Question Time. … Read the full post »
What will the impact be of MPs’ expenses on turnout?
The usual caveats apply that this is only one poll and also that people are often more likely to give what is seen as a socially acceptable answer than to actually behave that way. … Read the full post »
What happened to the 19 Conservative MPs who voted to keep MPs’ expenses secret?
A Bill introduced by former Conservative whip David Maclean tried to keep details of MPs’ expense claims secret. … Read the full post »
MPs who opposed expenses reform: how did the three Labour MPs facing trial vote?
A footnote to my post about the subsequent expenses revelations regarding the 21 Conservative MPs who voted down expenses reform in 2008, before the Daily Telegraph revelations forced everyone’s hand. Of the three Labour MPs now facing criminal charges, two also voted against reform (David Chaytor and Elliot Morley) whilst the third, Jim Devine, abstained … Read the full post »
Ooops, Jack Straw gets it wrong on Parliamentary Privilege
The current fuss over whether Parliamentary Privilege will prevent three Labour MPs and one Conservative peer from conviction… … Read the full post »
What happened to the 21 Conservative MPs who voted to block expenses reform in summer 2008?
The record of these 21 is much worse than that of the House of Commons overall – which prompts some fairly unappetising conclusions about why at least some of them voted the way they did to block expense reform. … Read the full post »
The most improbable MP expenses defence: my bank told me to do it
It’s a toughly contested field. But I think we have a clear winner in the “most improbable excuse for expenses claims” stakes. … Read the full post »