It’s a toughly contested field. But I think we have a clear winner in the “most improbable excuse for expenses claims” stakes.
Step forward David Amess, Conservative MP for Southend West.
He previously took to hiding in a hairdressers to avoid answering questions about his expense claims, he was one of the MPs who voted to block expense reform in the summer of 2008 and now he’s come out with this:
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If MPs have been reimbursed for anything they have bought then surely whatever it is, duck house, cushion or TV, it then belongs to the tax payer and must be returned when they leave Parliament. Or do they get the value deducted from their golden parachute???
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