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Jacqui Smith MP was ruled to have breached the House of Commons rules governing the use of the accommodation allowance from 2004 to 2009. She wrongly classified her family home in Redditch as her secondary residence, allowing her to claim around £20,000 per year for its costs. After 2007 she spent more time in Redditch, where her children went to school and where she voted and had a mortgage, making it clearly her main home. She was asked to repay the £42,130 claimed since 2007. Public opinion strongly beli
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