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TOPIC: Labour's Andy Burnham slammed for claiming £17,000 a year to rent London flat

Labour's Andy Burnham slammed for claiming £17,000 a year to rent London flat 9 years 7 months ago #143875

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Yvette Cooper and Mary Creagh, two of his Labour leadership rivals, chose to remain in the London properties that they already owned, rather than move into rented accommodation when the rules changed
The spokesman for Mr Burnham said: 'He has received no public subsidy in respect of his flat and the rent he receives only covers his costs.
'If parliament changed the rules, he would return to his own flat. Any suggestion that he has made money with the help of the public purse is utterly false.'
Mr Burnham, the MP for Leigh, bought the flat in Kennington, south London, for £215,000 in 2005 and was claiming up to £750 a month from the taxpayer to cover the mortgage interest before he moved out in 2012.

Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, insisted it was 'wrong' for Mr Burnham to claim the cash
According to Zoopla, the property valuation website, the flat is now worth £391,000.
It is not known exactly how much Mr Burnham receives in rent, but a tenant at his flat told the Sunday Times she was paying the 'going rate'.
Similar two-bedroom flats at Kilner House have been marketed for rents of between £1,500 and £1,700 a month.
Yvette Cooper and Mary Creagh, two of his Labour leadership rivals, chose to remain in the London properties that they already owned, rather than move into rented accommodation when the rules changed, even though they could no longer claim mortgage interest on expenses.
Mr Burnham has previously been criticised for his expenses claims. In 2009, it emerged that, after moving into Kilner House, he submitted a claim for £16,644 for obtaining and renovating the flat, including £1,845 for a new kitchen.
During lengthy negotiations with the fees office, the Labour MP — who later tried to reclaim the cost of a £19.99 bath robe from Ikea — even joked in a letter in December 2005 that he 'might be in line for a divorce' if the expenses were not paid.
Commenting at the time, Burnham said: 'I wish to make it clear in the strongest possible terms that I resent any suggestion that I have knowingly misused public funds.' He said the claim for the bath robe had been a 'genuine oversight'.
Mr Burnham is the front-runner in the Labour leadership contest and is expected to get the backing of Unite and other leading trade unions.
It came as Harriet Harman, the acting Labour leader, said the race to find Ed Miliband's permanent replacement must not be a 'stitch-up'.
'There is absolutely not going to be a stitch-up by the unions in this election,' Ms Harman said.
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