Anger over expenses overhaul claims
Updated on 07 November 2009
The head of the new watchdog charged with cleaning up Parliament is at the centre of a political firestorm after it emerged that he may scrap key elements of the plan to overhaul the system of MPs' expenses.
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy let it be known through briefings to newspapers that he was ready to abandon the proposed ban on MPs employing family members paid for out of the public purse.
Even more controversially, he was also reported to be planning to drop a requirement for MPs to hand back any profits they made when they came to sell up second homes which had been bought with mortgages subsidised by the taxpayer.
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