Brown to repay £12,415 expenses

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Source: bbc

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will repay £12,415 after an independent audit of all MPs' expenses claims since 2004.

Downing Street confirmed he would repay the money, largely for cleaning and gardening, even though the claims had been within the rules at the time.

It said auditor Sir Thomas Legg had "deemed" that any annual claims above £2,000 for cleaning and £1,000 for gardening should be repaid.
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Conservative leader David Cameron has been asked by Sir Thomas to provide more information about payments for which he over-claimed in 2006 when he changed his mortgage. He had already repaid £218.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8303312.stm

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ooooops.
in the long controversial dispute about what's "leftist" and what's "rightist" in these times among the european leaders and thinkers we found confirmed that something belongs to both. the sympathy for free expenses of public money.

italy gives lessons in this. brown, in comparison, is a rookie. ;)