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Former MEP Ashley Mote jailed over expenses fraud 13 July 2015 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright PA Image caption Ashley Mote sat as a South East England MEP between 2004 and 2009 A former MEP who fraudulently claimed almost £500,000 in European Parliament expenses has been jailed. Ashley Mote, 79, was convicted of 12 charges relating to claims for payments to people he said were whistleblowers. The offences included fraud, acquiring criminal property and false accounting. Mote, who was elected on a UKIP ticket but sat as an independent MEP for South East England, was sentenced to five years at London's Southwark Crown Court. 'Greed and dishonesty' In May,  he was convicted  of four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property, conc...

Rachel Johnson reveals plans to stand as European elections candidate for Change UK and takes swipe at brother Boris JOE MURPHY     NICHOLAS CECIL Click to follow  The Evening Standard Sibling rivalry: Rachel and Boris Johnson, who support opposite sides of the Brexit debate  ( Dave Benett ) I  would  like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts, by email Rachel Johnson , sister of Boris, today revealed she is standing as a European election candidate — and took a swipe at her Brexiteer brother. Talking exclusively to the Evening Standard, the campaigning journalist said she will stand in the South West region for Change UK, the pro-Remain party set up by The Independent Group of MPs. She said she was taking a stand against a  Brexit  that would deny young people the freedoms that Brexiteers themselves enjoyed to live and work in the European Union. Ms Johnson said...

Tory minister says EU citizens  fleeing domestic abuse should  go home EXCLUSIVE UK Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes is under fire for comments           31  comments ADVERTISEMENT UK IMMIGRATION Minister Caroline Nokes has said that vulnerable EU migrant women living in  Scotland  and fleeing domestic abuse should just return to their own countries, it has emerged. Nokes made the statement in a letter to Kirsty Blackman MP, who is campaigning for a change in law to stop EU women who are judged not to be exercising their treaty rights – because they are not working, studying or able to support themselves – having to choose between staying in a dangerous, abusive relationship or facing destitution.  Blackman said that she was shocked by Nokes letter and branded the Home Office “heartless” and “wilfully ignorant”. The  SNP  Aberdeen North MP, who launched a 10-minute ...