The Mail on Sunday

A tangled Webbe we weave

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CLAUDIA WEBBE wins the ‘dog ate my homework’ award for excuses when it comes to breaking parliament­ary rules. The Leicester East MP, who replaced randy Keith Vaz after his rent-boy outing, was ten months late declaring the £10,500 allowance she receives as a Labour councillor on top of her MP salary. Webbe said her declaratio­n email got stuck ‘in her draft box’. That stuck in the Standards commission­er’s craw, who ordered her to apologise for breaching the MPs’ Code of Conduct. Webbe, right, is already on the naughty step – she’s had the party whip suspended pending the outcome of her trial next month for allegedly harassing a woman.

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