Information provided by his son on Facebook led to the story of how Conservative MP Derek Freddie Conway had paid him as a researcher.
His son’s Freddie Conway’s profile on the social networking site proved that the was a full-time undergraduate at Newcastle University while he was being paid as a researcher by his father, the Times reports today.
The Times story also notes that 40 MPs from all three major parties count family members among their staff, a practice that is coming under closer scrutiny because of the Conway story.
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