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The latest focus of the Westminster expense scandal appears to be the employment of family members by MPS. It is widely believed that when Sir Christopher Kelly announces his expenses reform package next month that MPs employing family members to provide back office services will be banned. It seems that this has been widely practised for a long time and to a certain extent makes sense.

If you work in politics it’s entirely feasible that you met your spouse through your occupation and if you didn’t she was probably heavily involved in supporting you to get where you are. Either way it would mean that your other half would have a better than normal grasp of what it takes to work in politics, rendering them highly employable. In this case I really fail to see how the proposed ban could be enforced.

In my opinion this is one step too far for this scandal. I accept the repaying of ridiculous expenses and stopping profit making on second homes but how can you stop people who are qualified to do a job, from doing it. Not to worry though, politicians being politicians have already come with a way around it. They’re just going to employ each others family members. And they wonder why we have such a great affection for them!