Saturday 24 March 2012
Emma Boon, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Taxpayers will be enraged that Mr Bercow has made such an eye-watering profit on the sale of a property whose purchase they subsidised for so many years.
‘It is absolutely right that the rules are finally changing to stop this practice, which has allowed scores of MPs to buy second homes.’
But Emma Boon, campaign director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Mums-to-be already pay for the NHS through their taxes. This is asking them to pay twice. Pregnancy is meant to be a happy time for prospective parents, not a money-making opportunity for a hospital.’
