Sir thomas legg could be the name of a 17th-century nobleman, and a bitterly resisted attempt to extract money from Parliament sounds familiar too. If only the current showdown between mps and the auditor keen to punish their abuse of allowances in recent years were as compelling as the English civil war.rnInstead, the row is the latest phase of a scandal that broke in May, when many mps were shown to have feathered their nests with taxpayers' money. Some of the claims broke even Parliament's lax and discredited rules. Others were legal but morally dubious.
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