Facebook profile provided key information for Derek Conway story

Posted by Martin Stabe on 30 January 2008 at 12:22
Tags: Journalism

Information provided by his son on Facebook led to the story of how Conservative MP Derek Freddie Conway had paid him as a researcher.

His son’s Freddie Conway’s profile on the social networking site proved that the was a full-time undergraduate at Newcastle University while he was being paid as a researcher by his father, the Times reports today.

The Times story also notes that 40 MPs from all three major parties count family members among their staff, a practice that is coming under closer scrutiny because of the Conway story.

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