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Joan Ruddock MP submits wholly notional expenses return

By Helen Duffett | Mon 26th July 2010 - 6:50 pm

The Londonist reports that Joan Ruddock, the Labour MP for Lewisham Deptford, has taken the unusual step of submitting her election expenses return without attaching any invoices or receipts, instead listing all expenses as “notional”:

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Posted in Election law | Also tagged election expenses, electoral commission, joan ruddock, lewisham deptford and londonist | 1 Comment

Joan Ruddock and the Iraq war: an unusual self-description

By Mark Pack | Sun 11th April 2010 - 7:50 pm

Joan Ruddock didn’t vote in four of the six key Parliamentary votes on going to war in Iraq used by the independent Public Whip website (which sorts and reformats the official Parliamentary voting records) to analyse MPs’ voting records on the war.

So how do you think Joan Ruddock describes this two-thirds absent record in a target letter to voters?

This is how:

I have always acted with integrity and stuck to my principles – voting against the government going to war in Iraq.

As local Liberal Democrat blogger Max puts it:

So, I don’t think she’s being straight at all by saying

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Posted in News | Also tagged joan ruddock and lewisham deptford | 6 Comments

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