Tory MP is not the only one to repay expenses, ask local ex-Labour MP's

The Maria Miller expenses row story makes us wonder why our local MPs haven't taken the opportunity to bash the Tories over the expenses scandal.

However they well know that their Labour party predecessors also had to pay back their expenses.

Conservative MP Maria Millers pay back came to £5,800

In 2009 Labour MP for Wigan Neil Turner, paid back £6786 from his second home expenses claim.

Ian McCartney, Labour MP for Makerfield, shortly before he retired paid back £15,000 of expenses.

The latest senior MP to be caught up in the scandal admitted that what he charged to the taxpayer for furnishing his second home was ' inappropriate'.  The claim, submitted in 2006, included an 18-piece dinner set, champagne flutes and wine glasses.

Labour and Conservative - as bad as each other?