Not surprisingly, the Lords has been getting some unfavourable coverage as a result of the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to prosescute Baroness Uddin in the light of the vague rules governing a peer’s principal residence. The Clerk of the Parliaments yesterday issued a statement explaining his interpretation. In it, he also refers to the…
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. …
The way we are paid expenses in the Lords is sleazy, embarrassing and I hate it. A lot of crossbench colleagues feel the same way and I daresay others do too. There are a number of peers who are sufficiently rich (or are paid as Ministers) they don’t feel the need to draw expenses but the vast…
