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Article: Tories step up anti-sleaze campaign after MEP scandal ; Conservative leader David Cameron last night announced his new sleaze-buster will be sent to Brussels after an expenses scandal which forced South West MEP Giles Chichester to quit as the party's leader in Europe.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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Conservative leader David Cameron last night announced his new
sleaze-buster will be sent to Brussels after an expenses scandal
which forced South West MEP Giles Chichester to quit as the party's
leader in Europe.
Hugh Thomas, appointed in March as the Conservative Party's head
of compliance, is thought likely to impose on the party's Euro-MPs
the same standards and checks as on their counterparts in
Westminster.
Mr Chichester was lying low last night after losing his job as
the most senior Conservative in the European Parliament. He had been
told by Mr Cameron to justify transferring more than pounds400,000
of staff expenses into a private family company, but he stood down.
And yesterday, ...