Our political representatives have returned to Westminster, and the air is still thick with the Ghosts of Expenses Past. As MPs are ordered to pay back their more extravagant claims — with most of them complaining as they do so — you’d be forgiven for thinking that there isn’t a single decent one amongst them. But you’d be wrong. For the past few weeks, our readers have been highlighting the diamonds in the rough, via their nominations for The Spectator/Threadneedle Readers’ Representative Award.
This week, Paul Wheeler has nominated the Conservative MP Ed Vaizey for his efforts at helping people who lost their savings during the crunch: ‘Ed has been an absolute rock to hundreds of angry and frightened citizens; explaining the unexplainable and challenging the powerful.’ While Stephen Lamley writes that Daniel Hannan has recently ‘enhanced his credentials as the thinking person’s Conservative’.
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