Quote of the day: Tories are good at building empires, living off allowances and ripping off taxpayers
7 Mar 2013
"Tories are good at building empires, living off allowances and ripping off taxpayers. Look at the £286,000 credit card bill run up by ex-Essex County Council Leader Lord Hanningfield for fiddling his Lords expenses and you see the problem"
Conservative commentator Simon Heffer (Daily Mail, Saturday 2 March 2013)