Let’s hope Warsi can explain this one

It’s not looking terribly good for Baroness Warsi, the co-chairman of the Conservative Party, is it? She has apparently claimed £165 per night subsistence allowance expenses whilst staying rent free in a mate’s house (who also, apparently, lived there rent free). The Baroness has said she made appropriate payments, but the owner of the flat says he’s received nowt and, frankly, it doesn’t seem terribly likely, does it? I mean, not wishing to prejudge the issue (there have been calls for an investigation).

I hope Warsi does have a reasonable explanation as she’s one of the few leading officially-sanctioned Tories I have much time for at the moment. She has a tendency to say what she means, regardless or not as to whether it will get her into trouble. You can count the number of senior politicians who do that on a hand which has had several fingers amputated. On the more general issue, the MPs are still coining it in expenses, aren’t they? More than they did in 2010.