Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to be investigated over allowances

[jrobertson]

www.telegraph.co.uk (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) - Telegraph.co.uk - 18-Feb-09

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to be investigated over allowances (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4689034/Home-Secretary-Jacqui-Smith-to-be-investigated-over-allowances.html)

Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary, will face a formal sleaze inquiry after claiming thousands of pounds in tax payer-funded housing allowances while lodging with her sister.



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[BarkingDogATLAS]

I watched the video and found it strange that the reporter blamed parliamentary commissioner of standards John Lyon for judging her for gloating about a deported radical muslim cleric.

This issue is slightly more serious than where she spends the night and the location of her house.