Westminster hopeful Andy Burnham has been called a hypocrite after it was revealed he has been renting out a London flat that was partly funded by his MP’s expenses.
Labour’s Makerfield by-election candidate bought the two-bedroom Kennington property in 2005 and since then its value has doubled to £480,000.
Mr Burnham – who has often lamented young people’s inability to get on the housing ladder – used taxpayers’ cash to pay his mortgage interest on the property using his MP expenses – an allowance that was scrapped following the 2009 expenses crisis.
He was branded a hypocrite by the Tories. Kevin Hollinrake, the
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