The case of the former chief secretary to the Treasury is purely about cash – just like all the rest of the duckhouses and moats
Am I mad or does the fact that David Laws is gay make no difference to the fact that he fiddled his expenses? Laws, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has resigned and referred himself to the Commons standards watchdog for claiming more than £40,000 in parliamentary expenses for renting rooms in properties owned by his secret gay partner, James Lundie, where they then lived.
Laws said: "My motivation throughout has not been to maximise profit but to simply protect our privacy and my wish not to reveal my sexuality." Elsewhere, Laws poignantly said that he'd kept the secret of his homosexuality "from everyone I know, for every day of my life" and that this exposure is "in some ways… a relief". Maybe Mr Laws would be less relieved to realise that,...
Am I mad or does the fact that David Laws is gay make no difference to the fact that he fiddled his expenses? Laws, the chief secretary to the Treasury, has resigned and referred himself to the Commons standards watchdog for claiming more than £40,000 in parliamentary expenses for renting rooms in properties owned by his secret gay partner, James Lundie, where they then lived.
Laws said: "My motivation throughout has not been to maximise profit but to simply protect our privacy and my wish not to reveal my sexuality." Elsewhere, Laws poignantly said that he'd kept the secret of his homosexuality "from everyone I know, for every day of my life" and that this exposure is "in some ways… a relief". Maybe Mr Laws would be less relieved to realise that,...
- 5/29/2010
- by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
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