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Article: MPs' spouses may go to court over jobs ban; Anger over proposed bar on employing husbands and wives.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone
WIVES and husbands employed by MPs could go to the High Court in their battle against a ban on being employed by their partners.
As party leaders insisted they would press ahead with a package of expenses reforms announced by Sir Christopher Kelly earlier this week, backbench anger is coalescing around the proposed bar on paying spouses to work as secretaries and researchers. More than 200 MPs employ members of their family at public expense, and some have done so for more than 30 ...