MPs expenses: MPs block bid to stop golden farewells

telegraph.co.uk
Jun. 4, 2009
Senior Labour and Conservative MPs privately blocked a Whitehall recommendation to scrap parachute payments for their fellow members who voluntarily leave Parliament The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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