Harris: System ‘defined by failure’

Labour MP Tom Harris writes in the Telegraph, commenting on the new regime of parliamentary expenses:

[Ipsa] “oversees an expenses system that was conceived in panic, legislated for in haste and has become defined by failure.”

“Very few conversations in the Members’ Tearoom at the Commons last very long before the latest complaint materialises about Ipsa, and its baffling, counter-intuitive and hugely expensive system.

“It is symptomatic of the body’s fundamental flaw: a complete inability (and refusal) to understand what an MP’s job entails.”