THREE Labour MPs have rightly been sent to prison for fraudulent expenses claims and a Conservative peer is likely to get the same punishment, and so he and umpteen others should.

How come Liberal Democrat MP David Laws, a coalition Government senior minister who tried to obtain more than £43,000 in illegal expense claims, is only suspended for a paltry seven days from Parliament?

It was not a mistake; he knew what he was doing, even if the motive was to keep his lifestyle private, rather than to cheat the taxpayer and get a large financial gain for himself. Nick Clegg says he trusts him, forgives him and hopes he will make a Parliamentary comeback.

I doubt many ordinary folk will agree with those views.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.