MPs to be forced to repay Legg expenses money
The Speaker has written to MPs saying how the Commons will deal with the refuseniks who won’t pay up Sir Thomas Legg’s expenses demands.
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The Speaker has written to MPs saying how the Commons will deal with the refuseniks who won’t pay up Sir Thomas Legg’s expenses demands.
Jon Snow blogs on the findings that Lord’s expenses are not receipted.
Gordon Brown’s speech today is an acknowledgment that there is a vacuum in the public debate on immigration and that the government has not been doing enough lately to fill it.
Sir Christopher Kelly’s report on MPs’ expenses calls for a law to stop the government interfering in MPs’ pay – but tighter powers for an expenses watchdog, as well.
Why is there to be no ‘Legg style’ investigation into the expenses of members of the House of Lords? I have blogged before on the expenses culture in the House of Lords.
Tory high command is taking the view that David Wilshire’s expenses scandal in the Daily Telegraph is not an open and shut case like, say, Sir Peter Viggers.
The Legg audit is judging the fees office as much as the MPs, but what particularly annoys MPs is that Legg has put what they think are arbitrary numbers on what constitutes breaching the spirit of the rules and what doesn’t.
When’s Legg over? A traditional summer holiday question… now being asked in the corridors of Westminster. Sir Thomas Legg is the man heading the inquiry into all MPs’ expenses claimed over the last four years. This is the piece of work that Gordon Brown called for and it could mean still more pain for MPs…
The following correspondence has come my way…it shows the new foreign office minister charged with looking after Latin America, reaching out to Latin American interests in the UK. I’m wondering how many other ministers, opposition front benchers and MPs are in receipt of such anger from voters?
I am at David Cameron’s speech at Imperial College listening to a paen of praise to the virtues of transparency, free information, transparency and accountability but at time of writing we have not yet been given the new additional list of Tory MPs who have had to pay back another £125k between them. We will,…
If Gordon Brown does want to move Alistair Darling out of No. 11 his task just got a lot easier. Gordon Brown’s defence of Alistair Darling’s position over the £1,004 service charge on a flat in Lambeth sounded equivocal at 7am in TV interviews. The PM was fully standing by his “friend” by the time…
I have been conducting an interesting correspondence with both Tony Blair’s office and the House of Commons commission which is currently dealing with MPs expenses. This follows my posting re. the shredding of Tony Blair’s expenses. A number of UK news outlets – the Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail among them – “revealed” that Blair’s…
The Telegraph editor-in-chief, Will Lewis, has been telling friends of the extraordinary night his newspaper went to press with the first of its revelations. In the middle of the evening he gets a call from the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Mr Brown is well aware of what is about to happen. His call is not…
There has still been no explanation forthcoming as to why, amid all the other expenses details to have emerged from the Commons, only one named MP’s expenses seem to have been shredded. It has been reported that other MPs’ expenses were also shredded. But I can only find the name of one MP to whom…
I am reliably informed that when new peers arrive in the House of Lords, there is a kind of informal induction process. Baroness Helena Kennedy of The Shaws tells me that when she arrived in the house, a peer came up to her and almost immediately opened the question of “second homes”.