A former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has been jailed for four years after dishonestly claiming almost half a million pounds in expenses.
Dozens of MPs are set to make hundreds of thousands of pounds in profits from the sale of their tax-payer-funded second homes, new research reveals.
MPs worried about a major pubic outcry have called the decision by the independent watchdog’s decision to give MPs an 11% pay rise at a time when the public are tightening their belts, have called the decision “wholly inappropriate”.
The distrust of the British public in MPs has been highlighted once again in a recent YouGov poll in which Londoners said they would be more likely to call for the resignation of a politician for fiddling their expenses than smoking crack cocaine.
MPs have been exposed for claiming £200,000 of taxpayers’ money to cover the cost of heating their second homes at a time when energy prices are rocketing and Downing Street told people to put on more jumpers.