Tory Peer Claimed Thousands of Pounds on Mystery House

Britain's inexhaustible expenses scandal has caught up with a Conservative peer, who had used someone else's home address to claim thousands of pounds in expenses.

The Sunday Times has revealed that Lord Taylor of Warwick, a 57-year-old former barrister, repeatedly “lied” to the House of Lords about his main residence.

Taylor, who has lived in his family home in west London for over a decade, had claimed his home was a terrace house in Oxford which he neither owns nor has ever lived in.'

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