Revealed: Full list of MPs who voted to give bankers a multi-billion tax cut
"How dare they do this when millions can't even afford to pay their energy bills", Richard Burgon asked.
"How dare they do this when millions can't even afford to pay their energy bills", Richard Burgon asked.
The questions came as MPs face intensified scrutiny over their roles outside Parliament following a sleaze row prompted by the Government’s botched attempt to protect senior Tory Owen Paterson from suspension over his breach of lobbying rules.
Chief whip Mark Spencer, who is responsible for party discipline, was one of those in attendance at the game.
The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.
She said the expenses scandal was a "billion times worse" and they still managed to "monster Labour in the local elections" one year later.
"These latest poll numbers are obviously striking, and while recent polls have begun to show slim Labour leads, none have been quite as comprehensive as this one."
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Seventeen landlord MPs have put their housing costs on expenses while raking in income from renting out their own properties.
Sir John Curtice said ministers should have been "well aware that the public are deeply suspicious of anything that smells of MPs trying to feather their own nests."
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