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Both Lee Dillon – the new MP for Newbury – and Olivia Bailey – for Reading West and Mid Berkshire – have now sworn themselves in to Parliament. With all that comes a contract – and that involves some navigation of the standards rules – which includes what they must do if someone gives them a gift. Along with the expenses register, it is a hardy perennial for political journalists. Remember Douglas Hogg, whose claim for the cleaning of his moat was one of the most embarrassing of the expenses revelations to hit the Conservative party? And we have a Lib Dem administration bedding in at West Berk…

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