Tories Report Cat Smith to Standards Commissioner in Stationery Row
Among the various perks of being an MP is a taxpayer-funded stationery price range, which at the moment stands at a cool £11,000 per yr per member. The guidelines set out by the House of Commons Standards Commissioner clarify that “The stationery shouldn’t be for use for celebration political campaigning“. In election years MPs are inclined to turn into just a little forgetful of those guidelines…
Corbynite Labour MP and former shadow cupboard minister Cat Smith has been sending letters to her constituents with first-class Parliamentary envelopes and paper. The letter petitions voters to place their particulars into her Labour-branded “cost of living survey” website, which collects voters’ particulars and states they “might inform future communications you obtain from us“. That is, campaigning…
Tory MP James Daly has written to the Standards Commissioner outlining their issues that the letter seems to be “activity in line with party political campaigning and therefore… well foul of the rules.”
Read the letter to the Commissioner under: