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A £5000 cleaner; MPs' costs revealed
A £5000 cleaner; MPs' costs revealed
Last Modified: 04 Apr 2008
By:
Lucy Manning
MPs' expenses revealed after the commons authorities, led by the speaker Michael Martin, went to the High Court to prevent their publication but lost.
So, should Tony Blair have charged the taxpayer £116 for a TV license, or Gordon Brown £5000 pounds for cleaning or John Prescott nearly £400 a month for food.
Those are the inevitable questions being levelled at 14 senior MPs tonight after details of their expenses were revealed.
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