UK Conservative leader David Cameron

Tory leader lays down the law – any MP who doesn’t repay Legge’s assessment will not stand in the coming election

First the Prime Minister and now Tory Leader David Cameron is demanding MP’s repay the over-payment and unethical expense claims or face expulsion from the party.

The breach of fiduciary trust by UK MPs has dominated the news this year and could spoil the coming election.

Cameron said any MP who refuses to pay the assessment will have the “whip withdrawn” which means the party whip will expel them from the Conservative Party.

Tory leader David Cameron has said he will withdraw the whip from any of his MPs who refuse to pay when urged to do so by Sir Thomas. BBC News

No doubt the hard line is an attempt to put the scandal behind the Tories in a hope of besting the Labour Party who are weak in the Polls.

Political leaders know the public is tired of the scandal and sense of entitlement that has pervaded the MPs on all sides of the House of Commons.

The amounts to be repaid seem middling compared with the hundreds of thousands that have been taken by MLAs in Prince Edward Island’s Provincial Nominee Scandal. The total in that story is more than $500 million.

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Here’s Legge’s tally.

Gordon Brown – £12,415
Ken Clarke – £4,733
Patrick McLoughlin – £4,058
Caroline Spelman – £2,400
Andrew Lansley -£1,728
Nick Clegg – £910
Lord Mandelson – £800
Alex Salmond – £710
Jack Straw – £600
David Miliband – £434

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