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Britain's inexhaustible expenses scandal has caught up with a Conservativepeer, who had used someone else's home address to claim thousands of pounds in expenses. The Sunday Times has revealed that Lord Taylor of Warwick, a 57-year-old former barrister, repeatedly “lied” to the House of Lords about his main residence. Taylor, who has lived in his family home in west London...
Last week the Conservative Party chairman, Eric Pickles, suggested that his deputy, Lord Ashcroft, would be "very happy" to give a media interview to clear up the uncertainty over his tax status. But that suggestion has been met with a flat refusal from the Conservativepeer.
Lord Ashcroft, the Conservativepeer and multi-million pound donor is the party's strategist responsible for winning marginal seats. Is he a UK resident/ tax-payer? Does he have a vote in the UK? According to the Independent, "In the House of Lords' annual report on peers' expenses for the year 2003-04, his main residence is recorded as being in Belize, in Central America....
Luton: Council of Mosques condemns egg throwing A Muslim organisation in Luton has condemned protesters who threw eggs at Conservativepeer Baroness Warsi. The shadow minister for community cohesion was pelted with eggs at a visit to the town on Monday. The Luton Council of Mosques (LCM) said it "strongly deplores the cowardly behaviour of a handful of individuals who threw abuse...
A US Supreme Court review of Conrad Black's fraud convictions could open the floodgates to scores of white-collar criminal appeals and make it harder to prosecute corporate fraud, prosecutors are warning. The Conservativepeer, for whom The Daily Telegraph was once the jewel in a global newspaper empire, takes his case to the highest court in the US this morning, in the hope of winning...
THE Conservativepeer Lord Taylor of Warwick is facing a fresh police investigation into his expenses after saying that a house belonging to his nephew’s companion was his main residence.
Last week there was both Andrew Lansley and Kirstie Allsopp on the BBC 1 Question Time panel. Kirstie Allsopp is an adviser to the Conservative party on housing matters, has been tipped for a peerage under a Tory government and is reported to be favoured as a parliamentary candidate by David Cameron. Incredibly, this week, they’ll [...]
... to Jonathan Calvert who originally revealed the fiddles in the Sunday Times and knows more about peer’s fiddles than the House of Lord’s financial administration. Last night Jonathan got back in touch to say … Thanks for letting me know about Lord Taylor of Warwick’s escape from the police investigation. We went back into it and the result is in the paper tomorrow. He was hiding another...
The Conservativepeer Lord Lawson, the Tory MP David Davis and other politicians who have been casting doubt on the science of global warming in advance of next week's Copenhagen climate conference were "climate saboteurs", Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said yesterday.
Conservativepeer Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury, named Britain's most powerful Muslim woman, has been pelted with eggs during a visit to Luton. Baroness Warsi was taking part in a walkabout in the predominantly Muslim Bury Park area of Luton when...
Via BBC: Conservativepeer Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury, named Britain's most powerful Muslim woman, has been pelted with eggs during a visit to Luton. Baroness Warsi was taking part in a walkabout in the predominantly Muslim Bury Park area of Luton when she was confronted by a group of protesters. The male protesters accused her of not being a proper Muslim and supporting the death of...
