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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
📰The Telegraph’s @ChristopherHope was there when the 2009 MPs’ Expenses Scandal broke.

In fact, he broke it

For the latest episode of 'I Witnessed History', Christopher takes us inside the biggest story of his career 👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/mom…
💿“We’ve gotten hold of a disk containing the unredacted details of all MPs’ expenses”

Those are the words uttered to @christopherhope on an early 2009 Bank Holiday Monday.

What followed would become the biggest political scandal of the decade

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"We had every MP’s private address, bank details, we had everything. We were literally inside their private lives"

"What bore heavily on us was whether we were being hoodwinked by somebody - are these documents real?" says @christopherhope
"It’s very rare in your journalistic life that you are the absolute focal point of the national conversation"

Listen to the latest episode of I Witnessed History here 👇
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