But Labour and Tories Blocked Series of Expenses Major Reforms (Bristol East Liberal Democrats)

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But Labour and Tories Blocked Series of Expenses Major Reforms

May 25, 2009 3:14 PM

Clegg and Cable Wake Up Call Last summer an unholy alliance of Labour and Conservative MPs voted to block a series of major reforms to MP expenses, such as requiring receipts for all claims, having outside checks and major changes to the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA), yet all the Liberal Democrat MPs voting went through the lobbies in favour of reform. Of course, the bulk of the blame for blocking the reforms must lie with the Labour Party as 146 of their MPs voted to block the reforms but given David Cameron's strident recent comments, it's striking to see that seven of his Tory frontbenchers, and 21 MPs in total, voted to block reform when they had the chance. This was enough to see the measure defeated.