Summary
TORY MP Julie Kirkbride used public money to help fund a Pounds 50,000 extension to her second home, she admitted last night.
It added an extra bedroom for her brother, who has lived there rent free for the last five years and who acted as her babysitter.See the full content of this document
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Brazen Mp Got Us to Pay for Her Pounds 50,000 Extension ; (... Oh, and We Also Helped to Fund These Pounds 1,000 Photographs) [Scot Region Edition 2]
Miss Kirkbride also admitting spending Pounds 1,040 of taxpayers' money on PR pictures of herself in 'clothing catalogue' poses.
The revelations are likely to spell the end of the Bromsgrove MP's political career. She was already the target of voters' outrage over her expenses, but was defying a call by David Cameron to submit herself to a public meeting in her constituency.Her husband Andrew MacKay, MP for Bracknell, has already announced he is quitting after claiming Pounds 140,...See the full content of this document
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