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Robinson Expenses Revealed
Shamed former MP Iris Robinson claimed £1,644.90 for a bed, a report of MPs' expenses revealed today.
The final report into last year's financial scandal found that she had claimed the money in January 2006, which exceeded the guideline price of £1,100.
Mrs Robinson, an evangelical Christian, quit politics last month after it was revealed she had an affair with a 19-year-old. Three more affairs were alleged.
Sir Thomas Legg's report, released at 10am this morning, also found she and her husband Peter Robinson, who is Ireland's first minister, both claimed for the same £1,429.99 "service charge" bill in May 2009. Mrs Robinson subsequently repaid £2,274.
Sir Thomas' report, which reviewed five years of claims, recommended that more than half of the 646 MPs must pay back a total of £1.3 million.
