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Articles Written by: BEN LEAPMAN
The couple owned their London flat outright, but transferred it to a family trust and began paying £21,600 a year in rent to the trust. They claimed the money back from taxpayers via the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA), intended to help MPs meet the ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
18 Jun 2008
He complains that liberal-minded commentators feel free to criticise the current wave of eastern European immigration, which began with the expansion of the EU in 2004, in a way they would not have done about earlier waves of migrants whose skin colour ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
4 Jun 2008
Full coverage of UK Politics
Today the High Court has delivered a damning verdict on the attempt by MPs to keep secret the details of their Additional Costs Allowance claims, which pay for their second homes.
I requested details of six MPs’ expenses in ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
16 May 2008
As I reported on this blog, mine was perforated in the wrong place so that the “inner envelope” split when it was sealed.
If I sent it back like that, my vote wouldn’t have been secret. But if I did a repair job, could I have been disqualified under ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
29 Apr 2008
I have just filled in my postal vote for the London mayoral election. It was so confusing that I fear we're heading for a calamity on May 1, with the outcome determined by whose supporters spoil fewer ballot papers.
Ken Livingstone could be hit hardest ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
18 Apr 2008
Margaret Beckett: one of many MPs in expenses row
The Sunday Telegraph is publishing new details of individual MPs’ claims for additional cost allowance from 2001 to 2004. The information was requested more than three years ago under the Freedom of ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
6 Apr 2008
Today should have been the day that we found out how MPs spend our money on their second homes.
Who knows how many MPs' kitchens have been paid for by taxpayers
I asked in January 2005 for details of how six named MPs spent their Additional Costs ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
25 Mar 2008
So Derek Conway, the Tory MP who was suspended from the Commons over the employment of his son, will not face a criminal investigation.
Derek Conway is to stand down at the next election
Scotland Yard said tonight: "The Crown Prosecution Service ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
20 Mar 2008
Full coverage of UK Politics
Looks like the Speaker and his allies have finally woken up and smelled the coffee (made with their £100 John Lewis coffee makers and sipped at their £250 coffee tables). Nick Robinson reports that the House of Commons ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
14 Mar 2008
Full coverage of UK Politics
More embarrassment over MPs’ expenses today, as the Commons authorities have been forced – via Freedom of Information requests from me and other journalists -- to publish the “John Lewis list” setting out the maximum that ...
From BEN LEAPMAN,
The Telegraph,
13 Mar 2008
