MPs' expenses: Alan and Ann Keen face formal sleaze investigation
Alan and Ann Keen, the Labour MPs, are to have their expenses investigated by the parliamentary sleaze watchdog.
The Keens claimed £140,000 over four years for their "second home" - a Thameside apartment ten miles away in Westminster - while listing the run-down, semi-detached house in Brentford, west London, as their "main home".
Under Commons rules, an MP's main home must be the one in which they spend the most nights. However, the Keens were sent a warning from Hounslow Council that the property would be seized as an "abandoned dwelling" - and council tenants would be moved in - if it remained unoccupied for much longer.
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