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The Moran doctrine

How, you might ask, do these MPs with their snouts in the trough justify it to themselves? Margaret Moran, the Luton MP who has claimed for her partner’s home in Southampton, gave her rationale to BBC1’s Politics Show earlier.

MARGARET MORAN: My partner works in Southampton.  He has done for twenty years.  If I’m ever going to see my partner of thirty years, I can’t make him come to Luton all the time. I have to be able to have a proper family life sometimes, which I can’t do unless I have, er, you know, I, I share the costs of the Southampton home with him.

ANDREW SINCLAIR: Why should the taxpayer pay for your home in Southampton, when clearly you’re not using it for work?

MARGARET MORAN: Well you could argue that I use it to be able to sustain my work.

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