Summary
JACQUI Smith was let off with a slap on the wrist yesterday even though Parliament's sleaze watchdog said she was in clear breach of rules on MPs' expenses.
Labour's former Home Secretary grudgingly apologised in the Commons after John Lyon, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, delivered a scathing verdict on her Pounds 100,000-plus second-home claims.See the full content of this document
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Slap On the Wrist Guilty Jacqui ; She Is Told to Say Sorry, but Not to Repay Pounds 100,000 [Scot Region Edition 2]
His devastating report - and the fact that Miss Smith's own police protection officers contradicted her version of events - appeared to leave her political career in ruins.
She decided to designate a room in her sister's house in London as he...See the full content of this document
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