Ed Balls spent £9,000 on a government credit card when in office, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
The Telegraph report:
Spending on Mr Balls’ office credit card has been released covering the period when he was Schools secretary from 28 June 2007 to 11 May 2010.
The lavish spending has echoes of the credit card bill run by the private office of Lord Prescott when he was deputy Prime Minister.
The details of the spending on the government procurement card were released following a Freedom of Information request from Tom Watson MP, the Labour party’s deputy chairman.