I feel really sorry for Jacqui Smith and her husband, and indeed for all MPs at this time of year. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the situation with MPs’ expenses seems to work like this: Members of Parliament fill in long and complicated forms, and then a panel of journalists choose a few of them and publicly humiliate them on the grounds that they filled in their forms incorrectly in a sufficiently entertaining way.
For these purposes, the rules about what is judged to be the correct way to fill in the form change randomly all the time.
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The right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over its report, ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’, for making allegations in the report that it now admits were unsubstantiated.