Posted by Mary on October 3, 2019, 10:28 pm, in reply to "QT coming up BBC 1"
He was moved from Parliamentary under Secretary for Children and Families under May to the same job in Business and Industry under Johnson.
His hypocrisy here was gross in view of his personal wealth -
'Zahawi claimed for 2012/13 a total of £170,234 in expenses, ranking him the 130th highest out of 650 MPs. He explained in his local newspaper Stratford Herald that the "vast bulk" of his expenses was on staffing costs.
In November 2013 Zahawi "apologised unreservedly" after The Sunday Mirror reported that he had claimed £5,822 expenses for electricity for his riding school stables and a yard manager's mobile home.
Zahawi said the mistake arose because he received a single bill covering both a meter in the stables and one in his house. He would repay the money though the actual overcharge was £4,000. An article in The Independent also drew attention to the number of legitimate but "trivial" items on Zahawi's expenses.'