Senior members of David Cameron's shadow cabinet have been implicated in the parliamentary expenses scandal including Michael Gove and Andrew Lansley who "flipped" properties to claim allowances.
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Telegraph on 10th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Expense claims from the shadow cabinet • Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary and a member of Cameron’s inner circle, spent more than £7,000 furnishing a London property in 2006 before “flipping” the second home designation to a new one in his Surrey Heath constituency. • Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, spent thousands of pounds renovating
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LiberalConspiracy on 11th May 2009 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Conservative leader, George Osborne, Ken Clarke and Michael Gove will be among those repaying taxpayers' cash David Cameron today ordered his shadow cabinet to repay controversial expense claims as he set out stringent new guidelines for Conservative MPs. Admitting that the action of some MPs had been "wrong", the Tory leader said that he himself, George Osborne, Ken Clarke and Michael Gove, ...
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Guardian on 12th May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
David Cameron has demanded that Conservative MPs publicly account for their expenses claims after senior members of his shadow cabinet were implicated in the parliamentary allowances scandal.
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Telegraph on 11th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Michael Gove's question about Shadow Cabinet members who used to be in the SDP originally had two answers. Greg Clark and Chris Grayling. But immediately after Gove revealed this, it transpired that he hadn't the full story. For Andrew Lansley...
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CommentCentral on 29th Jan 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
When David Cameron was elected leader three years ago, there was some doubt about how long Andrew Mitchell, as a supporter of David Davis's leadership campaign, would remain in the shadow cabinet. But Mr Mitchell has proved to be one of the sharpest characters in the Shadow Cabinet, and appears to be highly regarded by David Cameron. As Shadow Secretary of State for International Development,...
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AlexSingleton on 8th Jan 2009 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Michael Gove, the Shadow Secretary of State for schools and children, is visting BUCF today at 4pm. It will be held in the Arts Building, LR2, (The building to the right of the library if you are facing it. Dan or Jimmy will be outside to meet you) Michael’s nickname amongst Shadow Cabinet colleagues is the ‘one
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BUCF on 9th Feb 2009 (via bucf.wordpress.com)
Shadow children's secretary courts cabinet ministers Lord Andrew Adonis, James Purnell and Hazel Blears
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Guardian on 27th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
As David Cameron promised, from now on all Conservative Shadow Cabinet expenses claims are being outlined online in (more or less) real time. The system automatically updates every five minutes, which I think is near enough to real-time!This will extend to all Conservative MPs after it has been piloted with just the Shadow Cabinet taking the lead. Along with the other measures Cameron announces
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JohnMWard on 15th May 2009 (via wwwjohn-m-ward.blogspot.com)
Labour is having great difficulty getting to grips with Michael Gove. In a hotly contested field, the Education Secretary has perhaps the strangest appearance of any Cabinet minister. He looks like a disconcertingly lifelike educational toy, which speaks real English at three times the speed of any real Englishman.
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Telegraph on 24th Nov 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
After spending several days trotting out the list of Labour’s piggie-in-thetrough MPs, the Telegraph is moving on to the Conservatives - starting with the Shadow Cabinet: The Telegraph Expenses Files on the shadow Cabinet disclose that: Michael Gove, the shadow education secretary, spent more than £7,000 in five months furnishing a London property in 2006 before “flipping”
