No criminal charges will be brought over 14 police inquiries into Conservative party spending in the last general election. Around 30 Tory MPs and party agents were being investigated for expenses fraud. The allegations concerned spending over “battle buses” transporting activists into marginal seats. Expenses were wrongly filed as national spending rather than spending on individual constituency campaigns.
The Tory MPs in question have been waiting in suspense for the CPS to rule on their future. It has decided not to press charges, because it can’t prove the expenses were filed this way deliberately:
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