A Conservative MP who demands a “zero-tolerance” approach to criminals is under police investigation over an alleged £100,000 benefits fraud linked to his mother-in-law’s finances.
Peter Bone, the Eurosceptic MP for Wellingborough, has been questioned under caution by detectives as part of a year-long inquiry into whether the elderly woman’s assets were deliberately concealed during her time in a care home, The Times can reveal. Documents were seized when the MP’s constituency home was raided by police last year.
A file on the case has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), whose special crime division is considering whether to approve charges.
The fraud investigation is understood to have been triggered by concerns that public money was wrongly used to fund the residential care