Make Them Pay

Posted on Apr 29, 2010 in blog, frontpage, Jacqui Smith, projects As election day gets closer and closer it is vital that the expenses crisis isn’t drowned out in promises and spin. Over the last two years the Sunlight Centre’s largest campaigns and investigations have been into the Smith Institute and former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. With your help we want to remind voters about this in the run up to polling day. Not many people, and certainly...
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Minister Sadiq Khan “faces a fraud investigation”

Posted on Apr 8, 2010 in blog Labour MP Sadiq Khan has been reported to the Metropolitan Police over his expenses. The Met have confirmed they are considering the allegation and this morning’s Times suggest that the Minister is “facing a fraud investigation”. Mr Khan had expenses claims rejected for birthday cards for constituents after the Fees Office explicitly told him such a claim was against the...
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Labour’s Shahid Malik Attacks Sunlight Centre

Posted on Apr 3, 2010 in blog, frontpage, projects, Shahid Malik Controversal MP Shahid Malik has today attacked the Sunlight Centre for what he saw as a politically motivated complaint against him put in to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. In response Harry Cole from the Sunlight Centre said: “For Mr Malik to suggest that the complaint by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics was politically motivated shows, even now, how out of touch he...
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