MPs should copy company law for expenses reform

IF YOU haven't heard about MPs and their claims for duck islands, moat-cleaning, church donations and other such frivolities – and the calls for reform – where have you been?

As we are now aware, MPs can claim expenses for the cost of running a second home and for sundry other items needed to fulfil their parliamentary functions. Claims were supposed to be above reproach, only be for expenses necessarily incurred in the p...