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By politics.co.uk staff A Tory MP has agreed to pay back the £20,000 in tax and mortgage payments he claimed from taxpayer funds towards the staff quarters of his home. Sir John Butterfill later sold the section of his house for £1.2 million. But he told the BBC he had spent £500,000 renovating the half-derelict… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Tory MP Julie Kirkbride and Labour MP Margaret Moran have ended their political careers in the wake of the expenses scandal. Ms Kirkbride was intending to go to her Bromsgrove constituency today to face voters but frantic meetings in Conservative HQ appear to have made that move unnecessary. Ms Moran, MP for… Read more »
