Tory peer’s punishment for fiddling expenses criticised as too lenient

2026-01-28 - 16:00

Campaigners demand ‘real consequences’ for peer who claimed expenses for car journeys he did not take Campaigners have criticised as too lenient the punishment handed to a Conservative hereditary peer who has been found to have broken the House of Lords rules for the second time. In a report published on Wednesday, the House of Lords concluded that the Earl of Shrewsbury had fiddled his expenses and that he had done so in an “unacceptably casual” way. The lords’ authorities are intending to suspend him from the upper chamber for two weeks. Continue reading...