Final preparations for great escape

The doors to most of their Commons offices will remain shut for the next 10 weeks or so as their long break has started.

Whether such a lengthy recess is deserved is, I suppose, a matter of opinion given that as they sped out of the parliamentary gates we were discovering in an avalanche of ministerial statements that member’s allowances and expenses are heading, full pelt, towards £100m a year. for more click here