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Expenses Gate III: Hysteria, Humbug and Hypocrisy

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: May 13, 2009

Confession: within 30 seconds of hearing about David Willett’s expenses claim for changing light-bulbs I’d cracked the inevitable “how many Conservative MPs does it take to change a light-bulb…” joke to my long-suffering partner.

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