Bad news buried under the third runway

Just to point out an important post by Sam Coates over at Red Box.  Turns out the House has chosen today, when the airwaves are dominated by the Heathrow announcement, to publish an audit of MPs’ expenses (pdf here).  I’ll leave you to check out the details in Sam’s post, but it’s now looking less likely that we’ll see a full publication of expenses or, indeed, any proper restrictions introduced.  All in all, I wouldn’t be too surprised if the Government’s quite pleased that John McDonnell has been suspended from the Commons for protesting the Heathrow expansion.  There’ll be even less room in the papers for these dispiriting cover-ups to be exposed.