Left-wing Labour MP Apsana Begum has been cleared by a court of housing fraud. The Poplar and Limehouse MP had been accused – without merit, the court has decided – of three counts of dishonestly failing to disclose information relating to a council housing application.
Begum’s supporters have maintained all along that the charges should never have been brought.
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