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LEFT-WING Eurosceptics pilloried Scotland’s MEPs yesterday over reports an SNP favourite signed off tens of thousands of pounds a year in payroll expenses to his own wife.
The party’s president and sitting MEP Ian Hudghton came under fire from rival candidates in this month’s European parliament election after it was revealed the Hudghton household could have earned up to £600,000 in additional taxpayers’ cash through his wife’s employment as his office manager.
The former Angus council leader is top of the SNP’s list, having represented Scotland in Brussels since 1998.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
