The rotten-to-the-core Tory party has once again shown its contempt for the voters by choosing to keep on one of its more outrageous “expenses” swindling shadow cabinet MPs.

Conservative MP Eleanor Laing has been endorsed by her party to stand as candidate despite not paying capital gains tax on the sale of two properties on which she had claimed public money.

In what is an obvious admission of guilt, Mrs Laing has “voluntarily” repaid £25,000 to the public purse after her neat little earner was exposed.

According to newspaper reports, Mrs Laing had received her party’s “overwhelming backing.” She said was “delighted” at the outcome of a vote taken at a recent constituency meeting on the matter where 83 percent of her party’s organisation voted to keep her on as MP.

Mrs Laing did not pay £180,000 capital gains tax on the sale of two Westminster flats, on which she made a £1 million profit.

She and her now ex-husband bought the first flat in 1993 and purchased the next door flat in 2002, turning them into one large property. When she sold them both in 2008, she told the tax authorities that they were her principal residence when they were actually designated her second home for expenses purposes.

Conservative leader David Cameron has been asked by Sir Thomas to provide more information about payments for which he over-claimed in 2006 when he changed his mortgage. He had already repaid £218.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne has been asked to provide copies of his mortgage interest statements by the ongoing independent review of MPs expenses.

* Seven members of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have been told to pay back more than £14,000 in expenses. The claims included furniture, television licences, and mobile phone charges.

The DUP MPs have, however, been put to shame by the outrageous Sinn Fein MPs expenses. The five MPs, who have refused to even attend Westminster parliamentary sittings, have claimed £500,000 between them for “second homes” in and around London.

Sinn Fein’s Mid Ulster MP Martin McGuinness is giving back an overpayment of £3,000 for two months rent for his London accommodation. In a statement the party said: “This error was not picked up on at the time either by the Commons Fees Office or by Sinn Fein.” The party’s five other MPs have not been asked to make repayments.

* Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is to repay £910 of the £3,900 he claimed for gardening between 2006 and 2009.

* SNP leader Alex Salmond is repaying £710.88 for removal costs, which he claimed when he gave up his rented flat in London in 2007. He has also been asked to supply more information on £2,610 claimed for hotel stays.

* Chancellor Alistair Darling is to repay £554 he claimed towards a chest of drawers to furnish his second home.

* Gordon Brown has agreed to repay £12,415 in expenses claims which were made for “cleaning and gardening.”