 | Derek Conway MP will not face charges over expenses - Times Online and Adam Fresco Derek Conway, the disgraced Conservative MP, is to escape a criminal investigation into his misuse of Commons expenses, police have confirmed. Despite the wish of Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, to launch an inquiry the Crown Prosecution Service’s advice was that an investigation was impractical. They blamed the “lack of systems” put in place by the CommonsMikeM, St. Albans, England When he became Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair said that he would crack down on illegal drug taking by the better off. Anyone would think that this would include wealthy pop stars who stagger round London www.timesonline.co.uk |