Summary
Future's orange The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than £40,000 of taxpayers' money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners. Assuming Laws does not quit the Commons altogether and the parliamentary standards commissioner accepts his preposterous, 1950sstyle defence ("We did not treat each other as spouses - for example, we do not share bank accounts and indeed have separate social lives"), I suspect he will be offered the opportunity to rejoin the coalition government.
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First Cracks in the Coalition
Was David Laws the victim of a media "witchhunt"? That was the fatuous explanation offered by the former Liberal D emocrat MP, Lembit Opik, upon the resignation of his friend, the ex-chief secretary to the Treasury.
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