Journalist Heather Brooke, whose Freedom of Information battle led the courts to rule that MPs' expenses should be public, writes on her Your Right To Know blog today:"Readers of the blog may recall Alan Keen MP questioning my motives at a parliamentary inquiry held several weeks ago.
"With his wife, Ann, the couple are known as ‘Mr and Mrs Expenses’ for using £175,000 of taxpayers’ money to help buy a flat near Parliament – while they already had a constituency home nine miles away. They claimed more than £300,000 between them last year alone.
Now it seems that flat in Brentford – the couple’s ‘main home’ – has been vacant for so long the council want to repossess it."
You can read the full story about the Keens in today's Daily Telegraph here.
At a Select Committe hearing looking at press standards, Alan Keen asked journalist Nick Davies about Brooke's FoI activities "does she earn money from this?"- suggesting she had a vested interest.
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