[DanBC]

An English MP was caught in the expenses scandal. That MP was facing heavy criticism in the press for some of the things they had claimed for.

To respond better to the press this MP paid for public relations training.

The MP then claimed for the PR training on expenses.

I read about this in a national UK newspaper. (Either the Telegraph, or the Independent, or the Grauniad.)

I cannot find the name of the MP or the story.

Web searching doesn't always work.

[Swizec]

You mean the first hit for googling "telegraph MP expense scandal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9815...

It's about "The police have re-opened their enquiry into the former MP Denis MacShane after he admitted submitting fake receipts to claim expenses.", which sounds a lot like your story.

So I'm guessing the guy you're looking for is Denis McShane.

[DanBC]

No, but thanks for playing.

Specifically, there is no mention in that report of expenses claimed for public relations training.

[bjterry]

Are you referring to this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425...

I found this article as a link from the first result of: telegraph MP expense scandal "public relations" training (I added the quotes because lots of articles about MPs seemed to have "public" in them without mentioning "public relations").

[lttlrck]

You should have bookmarked it. Then you could have posted the link here and we could have found it on Google :)

[ScottWhigham]

I love how people want to show you how clever they are ("I found it!") rather than deal with your topic for what it was. Is it desperately wanting an upvote, or "Can't wait to prove someone else wrong"? Oh well.