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Article: Party leaders in UK must repay or clarify expenses
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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BRITAIN'S THREE main party leaders, including prime minister
Gordon Brown, should all repay, or supply extra information about,
some expense claims made over the last five years, an independent
auditor has ruled.
The provisional finding of the auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, into the
MPs' expenses scandal was delivered to hundreds of MPs by letter
yesterday on their first day back following the summer recess.
However, Sir Thomas has angered many MPs because he has decided
that some should repay money even when their original claims obeyed
the rules existing at the time.
Mr Brown must refund pound(s)12,415 ([euro]13,270), he has
decided, including pound(s)10,716.60 for domestic cleaning, window ...