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	<title>Kevin Davis &#187; MPs expenses</title>
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	<description>Charity Chief Executive, Politician, Husband, Father</description>
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		<title>Laws exposed</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2010/05/laws-exposed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2010/05/laws-exposed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 06:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Laws]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Anyone who has looked at what went on in the Yeovil General Election campaign will have been shocked by the way that David Laws ran his campaign against me. You can see here and here some of things his campaign got up to in his name. His whole re-electio campaign was based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2010/04/declaration-of-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2010/04/declaration-of-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike other parties the Conservatives have decided to implement the recommendations of The Committee on Standards in Public Life to make all their candidates at this General Election to submit a Declaration of Interest detailing where they derive their income and what they intend to give up when elected. It is also states matters relating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why an election might be close</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/10/why-an-election-might-be-close/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/10/why-an-election-might-be-close/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Two pieces of today's news lead me to wonder that the time is coming when an election might need to be called. The first bit of news is that over 300 MPs are going to receive letters from the investigative team looking at expenses. If it is really the case that these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are second jobs like second homes</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/06/are-second-jobs-like-second-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/06/are-second-jobs-like-second-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have copied a blog post below from Douglas Carswell, a really interesting take on the second job MPs issue. "Ban second jobs!" goes the cry. Okay.  What about the dozens of MPs who have a second job as a government minister?  Or as a select committee chairman?  Or on the Speaker's panel of worthies? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If the speaker goes so must the Leader of the House</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/05/if-the-speaker-goes-so-must-the-leader-of-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/05/if-the-speaker-goes-so-must-the-leader-of-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Act 2000]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harriet Harman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moatgate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/?p=2582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now the initial shock and disgust of the MPs expenses scandal has subsided the blame game has begun. Not unnaturally the speaker, Michael Martin, has taken the brunt of this criticism, presumably because it was he who pursued the denial of the original Freedom of Information Act to the High Court who in anger through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you defend moats?</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/05/can-you-defend-moats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 08:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things appear to be getting worse and worse on the fees debacle, but then it was always going to. I just heard Douglas Hogg telling a reporter that he did not claim for a moat, he merely submitted a schedule for all the costs of maintaining his property and then agreed with the fees office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not a good time to be a politician knocking on doors</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/05/not-a-good-time-to-be-a-politician-knocking-on-doors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/05/not-a-good-time-to-be-a-politician-knocking-on-doors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 08:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who is a politician, or involved in politics in any way, the current mess over MPs expenses is another sign of peoples total disillusionment with the whole political system. Anyone knocking on doors – and there is a lot of that going on at the moment because of the elections – will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown nose in a new trough</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/04/2509/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/04/2509/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MP allowances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not often I say this but I agree with Nick Clegg - I feel slightly unclean now. Brown's idea you can scrap the MPs allowances for working away from home and replace it with an attendance allowance is laughable. Clegg is right that this is the crazy system they have in the EU where people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MPS expenses under the rack</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/03/mps-expenses-under-the-rack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/03/mps-expenses-under-the-rack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/?p=2477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The issue of MPs expenses will not go away, but what is the answer? The plea of those who appear in the papers is that their claims are all perfectly acceptable according to the rules. The cry of the public is that the the rules must change. It is easy to claim that MPs have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown u-turn on expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/01/brown-u-turn-on-expenses-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kevindavis.org.uk/2009/01/brown-u-turn-on-expenses-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MPs expenses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a vapid little man our Prime Minister has become. Having decided to put a whip on Labour MPs to vote for keeping their expenses secret he does a last minute about face because he thinks he will lose the vote. When Blair caled him the 'clunking fist' I do not think many people thought [...]]]></description>
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