Over the past two years, the problems of parliamentary expenses have tended to be dominated by stories affecting the House of Commons. The Daily Telegraph was at the forefront of revealing claims made by MPs. However, The Sunday Times identified problems with peers’ expenses and this acted as a wake-up call to the House. Since…
There was an item on the BBC Today programme this morning on peers’ expenses. It was a rather unusual report. It opened by saying that “this programme has learned” that two peers are being investigated over their expenses, as if this was something not previously known. Perhaps no one at the BBC reads The Sunday Times. …
