But the Prime Minister’s spokesman later indicated that no action would be taken against those Labour ministers who may have ‘milked the system’.
“I think the Prime Minister has seen all of the explanations from the different ministers and he is satisfied with those explanations,” the spokesman said.
Another Labour Minister has been caught out in an expenses scandal after effectively admitting he had been wrong to claim £60,000 of taxpayers’ money for a property which is his parents’ main home – not his.
Employment Minister Tony McNulty performed a dramatic U-turn and announced he had stopped claiming the controversial MPs’ second-home allowance after being challenged by The Mail on Sunday.
Even more astonishingly, he said that 133 MPs who, like him, live within 60 miles of Westminster should be banned from getting the £24,000-a-year handout.
Mr McNulty and his wife, chief schools inspector Christine Gilbert, have a combined annual income of a third of a million pounds and between them own two London homes worth £1.2million.
They live together in a house she owns just three miles from Westminster.
The European Parliament has prohibited the use of the terms ”Miss” and ”Mrs” in case they upset female MEPs. According to a new ”Gender-Neutral Language” guidance, the politicians are required to address female members by their full name only.
It has also revealed that ‘’sportsmen” should be called ”athletes”, statesmen should be referred to as ”political leaders”, and terms like ‘’synthetic” or ”artificial” should be used in place of ”man-made”.
The guidance lists has also banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, airhostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.
