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After a 14-month investigation, Kathryn Hudson, Parliament’s standards commissioner, said earlier this year that the Culture Secretary should hand back £45,000 in over-claimed allowances for a house in south-west London.
Person appointed to oversee MP's expenses sees wrongdoing but has no teeth to act.
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However, MPs on the Commons standards committee overruled the commissioner on Thursday and said Mrs Miller would have to repay just £5,800 and apologise for her “attitude” during the inquiry. The minister, who made more than £1.2million from the sale of the London property in February, subsequently gave a 32-second statement of apology in the Commons.
Seems her mates have helped her out a tad, very possibly poachers turned gamekeepers.
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David Cameron said afterwards that “people should leave it at that” and aides said the Prime Minister had given Mrs Miller his “warm support”.
Yes Dave we will leave it at that right up till the time you want an X in the box. You can go whistle..
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Sir Alistair Graham, the ex-chairman of the Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life, said Mrs Miller had “got off lightly”.
Mrs Miller escaped more serious censure because of the self-regulation of MPs. She is the Cabinet minister responsible for determining the future of press regulation and has repeatedly said the media must not be allowed to sit in judgment on itself.
A thoroughly corrupt system.
And they wonder why the fringe parties are taking votes from them!!