I see that the new Lib Dem Con coalition government is in a spot of bother following the resignation of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Lib Dem MP David Laws.
This surely must be one of the quickest ministerial resignations on record.
While I am not particularly interested in Mr Laws' private life, if he wanted to protect his privacy surely the best thing to do would have been not to claim any expenses at all. By all accounts he did not need the money.
As you would expect, Mr Laws' friends and colleagues have closed ranks behind him and are telling the world what a thoroughly decent man he is. That may well be the case, but they were not as forgiving to some other MPs who made mistakes.
And of course this case just goes to expose the hypocrisy of Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg, who portrayed his MPs as white than white when it came to claiming expenses and blamed MPs from the other two major parties for abusing the system.
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