“Double standards”
News article filed by British National Party news team
Labour deputy leadership challenger Jon Cruddas was accused of ‘double standards’ as it was revealed he bought a £500,000 second home to be close to his child’s elite selective school.
The devout multiculturalist Cruddas and MP for Dagenham has attacked Labour plans for more choice in education and criticised the lack of homes for working-class families.
But he sends his own child to one of Britain’s most exclusive Roman Catholic schools. And he owns two London homes, one of which is empty most of the time, thanks to claiming £60,000 in tax-free Commons housing expenses in the past three years.
The Mail on Sunday yesterday revealed that the MP – who has styled himself the “Real Labour” candidate for the deputy leadership – has exploited a loophole in the Commons regulations which allows him to claim for the cost of the mortgage interest for his £500,000 flat in upmarket Notting Hill – just round the corner from David Cameron – which he bought in 2004.
At around the same time his child began attending the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School half a mile away in Holland Park.
Mr. Cruddas, a former Downing Street adviser to Tony Blair on unions, last week argued with his fellow Labour colleague MP for the neighbouring Barking constituency Margaret Hodge who called for British families to be given precedence over recent immigrants in the council-house queue. http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1530
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