Gary Gibbon
Eighty MPs have registered that they wish to appeal against Legg’s bill for challenged expenses. I hear that about half of them may relate to mortgage claims. Legg has asked for documentation to prove mortgages claimed for and said that while photocopies might have been acceptable to the Fees Office they were not acceptable to…
Gary Gibbon
The letter sent to MPs saying they must repay money following the Legg review.
Gary Gibbon
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.
Gary Gibbon
Ann Widdecombe was having a bit of a go at the Speaker, John Bercow, yesterday for rolling over and not standing up for MPs’ rights against Sir ThomasLegg. I’m told that Speaker Bercow twice tried to persuade Sir Thomas to drop the retrospective elements, constructing caps for spending on gardening and cleaning second homes when…
Gary Gibbon
20 or so MPs have yet to pick up their envelope from Sir Thomas Legg, but there is rampant confusion among those who have.
Gary Gibbon
MPs are hoping for co-ordinated action that will see Thomas Legg back down on the issue of expenses and stop making retrospective cash payback demands.
Gary Gibbon
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.
Gary Gibbon
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…