Thursday, June 18, 2009

Tony Blair claimed £7,000 for new roof just TWO days before leaving Downing Street...

Tony Blair was accused of ‘shameful’ abuse of the expenses system last night after it was revealed that he claimed nearly £7,000 of taxpayers’ money to repair the roof on his second home just two days before leaving Downing Street.

The former Prime Minister appeared guilty of an opportunistic milking of the system after his raid on the public purse was revealed by the full release of MPs’ receipts.

Mr Blair submitted an invoice for ‘repairs to roof and guttering’ at his constituency property in Sedgefield on 25 June 2007. On the 27th he was gone from No 10. More...

See also:

  1. Tony Blair earned more than £6,000 a minute...
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  3. British MPs and the expenses scandal...
  4. Rage against the machine, as Britons fume against greedy politicians...

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