The affairs are private but the money is public.
“An MP in a Westminster love triangle charged taxpayers thousands of pounds for the luxury hotel where he had an affair with a journalist.
Angus MacNeil, a senior figure in the Scottish Nationalist Party, repeatedly claimed expenses for a room at the four-star Park Plaza near the House of Commons. His lover – 36-year-old Serena Cowdy – claims that she frequently spent the night there with him.
She is now having an affair with the 45-year-old’s fellow SNP MP Stewart Hosie.
Mr MacNeil, who like Mr Hosie has split from his wife, billed taxpayers for the hotel room while also letting his flat in the capital for more than £10,000 a year. …”
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