Whatever else may or may not be true of Harry Cohen MP, he was the subject of one of my favourite political insults. It came from Norman Tebbit: The Honourable Gentleman would have made a fool of himself, if God...
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CommentCentral on 11th Mar 2010 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
Police have begun an investigation into the expenses claims of Labour MP Harry Cohen who was paid more than £70,000 in a second home allowance for a house he rarely visited
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FT on 11th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Labour MP Harry Cohen is being investigated by the police over his expenses claims, the BBC understands.
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BBCPolitics on 10th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The Metropolitan Police has begun a criminal inquiry into Harry Cohen after he claimed more than £70,000 for a "second home" while renting out his main property.
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Telegraph on 10th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
It is the house that taxpayers built, and it stands to make a disgraced Labour MP a handsome £100,000 profit.
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Telegraph on 27th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
THE Commons has agreed to strip Labour MP Harry Cohen of his £65,000 golden goodbye payment over a "particularly serious breach" of parliamentary expenses rules.
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Scotsman on 2nd Feb 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
THE Commons has agreed to strip Labour MP Harry Cohen of his £65,000 golden goodbye payment over a "particularly serious breach" of parliamentary expenses rules.
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Scotsman on 2nd Feb 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Harry Cohen has been ordered to forfeit his £65,000 resettlement grant for a "particularly serious breach" of rules.
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Telegraph on 22nd Jan 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
One of the highest-claiming MPs in recent years claimed almost £2,000 to have a new bath installed at his second home in place of a Jacuzzi.
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Telegraph on 12th Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
If being brazenly out of touch with the public mood is your idea of being a top-notch MP, it’s time you started singing the praises of Ann Keen, Jacqui Lait and Harry Cohen. For as the Evening Standard reported yesterday: Five London MPs are refusing to say if they are being asked to repay part of
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 17th Oct 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)