Interested to hear any views on the resignation yesterday of the Cabinet Minister David Laws. He’d only served in David Cameron’s new coalition government a couple of weeks before being revealed as being gay and becoming involved in the controversy of parliamentary expenses.
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Basically, he’d claimed £40,000 in expenses to pay his partner James Lundie rent. Although they’d been in a relationship since 2001 he said he didn’t regard Mr Lundie as his partner because they had separate social lives and separate bank accounts.
Personally, having met Mr Laws through work a few years ago, my impression of him was that he was a thoroughly honourable man. I think it’s a shame for him personally and for the new government that he felt he had to resign.
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Basically, he’d claimed £40,000 in expenses to pay his partner James Lundie rent. Although they’d been in a relationship since 2001 he said he didn’t regard Mr Lundie as his partner because they had separate social lives and separate bank accounts.
Personally, having met Mr Laws through work a few years ago, my impression of him was that he was a thoroughly honourable man. I think it’s a shame for him personally and for the new government that he felt he had to resign.
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