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25/09/2009
MP's Expenses Back In Headlines
The MPs' expenses revelations that shattered confidence in Westminster politicians and sparked a probe by Scotland Yard earlier this year are back in the news today.
The man who leaked details of soemtimes fraudulent expenses claims has revealed he did so because of his anger at the Government's failure to invest in Britain's armed forces.
In a new book, the civilian worker - who was employed to process MPs' expenses files - described how he and his colleagues became "so agitated that they had to be told by managers to calm down".
According to the Daily Telegraph today, the 'final straw' for the book's author, who has not been named, was seeing the reaction of serving soldiers who were also working at the Stationery Office, the paper said.
He said that the militray personnel were "moonlighting" to earn money to buy body armour and other equipment, which they and colleagues weren't being suppled with on the dangerous 'front-line' operations in Afghanistan.
It was their "fury" at the way MPs were "lavishing taxpayers' money on their second homes" that led to the decision to leak the data, via a middleman, to the newspaper.
One file that was said to have "particularly enraged" the employees was Prime Minister Gordon Brown's claim for a Sky TV sports package, which cost £36 per month.
The worker's account appears in the book No Expenses Spared.
(BMcC/GK)
The man who leaked details of soemtimes fraudulent expenses claims has revealed he did so because of his anger at the Government's failure to invest in Britain's armed forces.
In a new book, the civilian worker - who was employed to process MPs' expenses files - described how he and his colleagues became "so agitated that they had to be told by managers to calm down".
According to the Daily Telegraph today, the 'final straw' for the book's author, who has not been named, was seeing the reaction of serving soldiers who were also working at the Stationery Office, the paper said.
He said that the militray personnel were "moonlighting" to earn money to buy body armour and other equipment, which they and colleagues weren't being suppled with on the dangerous 'front-line' operations in Afghanistan.
It was their "fury" at the way MPs were "lavishing taxpayers' money on their second homes" that led to the decision to leak the data, via a middleman, to the newspaper.
One file that was said to have "particularly enraged" the employees was Prime Minister Gordon Brown's claim for a Sky TV sports package, which cost £36 per month.
The worker's account appears in the book No Expenses Spared.
(BMcC/GK)
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