How is it that when the rich and well connected are caught with their hands in the till they are only guilty of a regrettable "lapse of judgement"? Theft, fraud, peculation; such terms are reserved for the lower orders.

"But there is an equally compelling point that Laws is a millionaire. If he wanted to keep his relationship secret then why spend any taxpayer money at all? Why the need to claim it back? After all the other MPs who thought they were obeying the rules at the time weren’t spared were they?"

(Sunny Hurndal on pickled politics)