The personal is political – and David Laws should be an advocate

Can someone tell me how using the public purse to pay your partner rent is in any way justifiable? Of course it isn’t. Parliamentary rules have stated that payments to relations and partners have been prohibited since 2006. But Liberal Democrat MP David Laws got away with it until shortly after the Coalition government was

The Expenses Scandal and the media: an avoidable disaster?

Steve Bell’s take on MP’s expenses – copyright of The Guardian The Great Expenses Scandal of 2009 was the biggest storm to hit the turbulent climate of the Westminster Village for many years. Although political corruption has been a feature of public life for as long as the national consciousness can remember, it had registered