Last night David Laws stepped down as chief Treasury, after the signs that he has used the public’s tax money to pay his boyfriends rent. He has been replaced by another LibDems colleague Danny Alexander. David has only worked for the new coalition for 17 days, but claimed in a letter to the new PM, that he could not resume his duties after this situation. He also stated that the PM deserved a secretary that was “not distracted by personal troubles”. Nick Clegg who was on holiday in France had to come back for a meeting. The PM claimed that he was sad about David’s resignation and that David was a “good and honourable man”. The PM also hoped that David would eventually come back to work as a MP.
I was very shocked to find that in the new coalition there are still people who do this. After all the comments on the MP's and the payback during the election, there is still an MP that uses other peoples money for himself. I think this is a disgrace and has blemished the new coalition. I wonder how the others think of his actions. I also don't understand that after such a thing, the PM still thinks that David is honourable, when he clearly hasn't been honourable against the taxpayers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7140189.ece
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