Not a gravy train?

IT’S fair to say MPs don’t have the best of reputations when it comes to expenses but here’s a nice tale from when Lib Dem Jo Swinson was first elected in 2005.

Then the “Baby of the House” at just 25 years old, her travel costs shot up part of the way through her first term.

Given she was making the same journeys every week this left everyone baffled until the East Dunbartonshire MP explained it was because her Young Persons Railcard had expired.