Tory minister mocks the poor and jokes about buying luxury cars on MPs’ expenses

‘A Tory Minister mocked the poor and joked about getting luxury cars on MPs’ expenses in shock undercover footage.

Old Etonian Hugo Swire claimed hard-up Britons who have seen their benefits slashed could afford to splash out £60,000 on auction prizes aimed at the super-rich.

And he revealed how generous expenses allowed MPs to drive top vehicles out of reach of ordinary hard-working taxpayers in the footage released to The Mirror by Dispatches.’

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