Alan so which bit do you object to with john leech? buying a cheap flat(160k is cheap in london) so he can live whilst he works? playing football in his spare time? cycling to work? Sounds rather sensible to me. And this has been a Parliamentary holiday. And incidentally, he's been active up here. He's come to at least 2 local residents meetings around here in the last 6 weeks(more than KB managed in 8 years) and he's been on TV and in the local press over a number of local matters. That strikes me as the mark of a conscientious MP