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24 April 2010

The NS interview: Heather Brooke

“The only way to fix our broken system is to expose it” - Heather Brooke, Freedom of Information cam

By Alyssa McDonald

You worked for years on MPs’ expenses. Do you begrudge the Telegraph their scoop?
Well, I couldn’t have gone through all those records on my own, that’s for sure. And I wasn’t fighting to get them for myself, I was fighting to get them into the public domain. That’s what drove me originally – frustration.

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