Tuesday, 12th May 2009
A crisis bigger than individuals
8:05am
When the expenses scandal finally hit the Tory party yesterday, I sucked my teeth a bit to read that Michael Gove MP had reportedly ‘flipped’ the designation of his main and second homes, the cynical practice we now know has been used by so many MPs to claim living expenses way beyond the spirit of ‘the rules’ they are claiming so disingenuously to have been following. I got to know Michael Gove as a fellow-panellist on the Moral Maze on BBC Radio Four; and although he sadly jeopardised his claim to be a human being when he went over to the dark side by leaving journalism and becoming a Tory MP, he always struck me as upright and I did not think he was it was remotely plausible that he would have ripped off the taxpayer in this way. Now...
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
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