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The Chief Treasury Secretary, David Laws, has fallen on his sword and resigned after been caught out fiddling the MPs expense system by renting rooms owned by his partner.
Perhaps, if Mr Laws had come clean over his expenses when other MPs were queuing up to regularise their own positions, all might have been well. But he did not and he has now paid the price for his failure.
It is a great shame for undoubtedly the new government has, for the moment at least, lost a first class brain.
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The Chief Treasury Secretary, David Laws, has fallen on his sword and resigned after been caught out fiddling the MPs expense system by renting rooms owned by his partner.
Perhaps, if Mr Laws had come clean over his expenses when other MPs were queuing up to regularise their own positions, all might have been well. But he did not and he has now paid the price for his failure.
It is a great shame for undoubtedly the new government has, for the moment at least, lost a first class brain.
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