THE TELEGRAPH: Alan Duncan has been sacked from the shadow cabinet by David Cameron over his complaint that MPs were made to live “on rations”.
David Cameron stripped Mr Duncan of his role as shadow leader of the Commons. He accepted a job as a shadow junior justice minister with responsibility for prisons.
Mr Duncan had been in charge of agreeing changes to the system of MPs expenses but his private comments, recorded by an activist who met Mr Duncan on the House of Commons terrace, made his position untenable. The demotion appears to have scuppered Mr Duncan’s chances of being in Mr Cameron’s first Cabinet.
Mr Duncan was secretly filmed earlier this year complaining about MPs’ reduced standard of living, arguing that MPs were forced to live on “rations” and had been treated like “----”. >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor and Chris Irvine | Monday, September 07, 2009
