MP threatens libel action over expenses letter
A Conservative MP has threatened to sue a member of the public who criticised his parliamentary expenses in a letter to a local newspaper.
Mr Lewis featured in The Sunday Telegraph's coverage of the expenses scandal when it emerged he had asked the Commons' authorities if he could claim £5,995 in expenses for a wooden floor at his second home"Solicitors acting for Julian Lewis, MP for New Forest East, sent a strongly-worded warning to Richard Grant for saying in a published letter that Mr Lewis "got away with it" after claiming expenses which would be "considered unacceptable" by most people".
Julian Lewis is the MP for the Snout in the Trough constituency.
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