The former MP David Chaytor has been jailed for eighteen months for falsifying his parliamentary expense claims.
He’s paid a very high price for submitting what turned out to be bogus invoices: disgrace, prison, exclusion from the party he served for many years, heavy court and legal costs and an uncertain future.
Sentencing, the judge commented that MPs ‘behaviour should be entirely honest if public confidence in the parliamentary system and the rule of law is to be maintained.’ There’s not much else to say after that.
Except, it must be remembered, this was just the first of the court cases pending concerning misuse of parliamentary expenses.
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He’s paid a very high price for submitting what turned out to be bogus invoices: disgrace, prison, exclusion from the party he served for many years, heavy court and legal costs and an uncertain future.
Sentencing, the judge commented that MPs ‘behaviour should be entirely honest if public confidence in the parliamentary system and the rule of law is to be maintained.’ There’s not much else to say after that.
Except, it must be remembered, this was just the first of the court cases pending concerning misuse of parliamentary expenses.
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