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Published Date: 04 November 2009
AN ACADEMIC lawyer and former TV host is to chair the body responsible for the shake-up of MPs' expenses, it was reported last night.
Reports that Sir Ian Kennedy has been selected to chair the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority came on the eve of the publication of the Kelly Report, which is expected to demand swingeing cuts in the cash MPs can claim.

Sir Ian is Emeritus Professor at University College London and in the 1980s hosted Channel 4 discussion show After Dark.





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  • Last Updated: 04 November 2009 11:27 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Politicians' expenses
 
1

Jimmy Fae the West,

In the Land O' Green Ginger. (HULL) 04/11/2009 01:38:07
Is this the same Sir Ian kennedy which Alan Milburn, (Ex-Labour Health secretary) once joked, ran the NHS, only a few week before Milburn tendered his resignation?

A very strange choice of an arbiter of Labour's fraudulent MPs.
2

Mercutio,

FALKIRK 04/11/2009 06:09:58
Thank Goodness I thought is was yer man Tearlach!
3

DeanConinPeteFSteed,

04/11/2009 06:26:49
From After dark to the chair of the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, I’m impressed with the symbolism and are amused with how apt it all sounds.
4

Jings MacCrivvens,

04/11/2009 07:17:29
And WHO appointed him?
5

Rob Veers,

04/11/2009 08:36:45
Now we're allowed to see the expenses people will be able to see the clarity of both the MPs expenses and the effectiveness of the new independent parliamentary standards authority.
6

peter1958,

Glasgow 04/11/2009 22:45:55
Thank God it's Ian Kennedy - for one terrible minute there I thought they meant Charles Kennedy.
Cheers - mine's a treble!
7

Jo Public,

04/11/2009 23:50:23
#6. Peter. ha ha. That's what I thought when I read the headline.

 

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