Commons Speaker Michael Martin’s Cleaner Gets MBE

THE Mail reports that  Commons Speaker Michael Martin “came under fresh fire last night after his cleaner – who was involved in a row over his wife’s taxi expenses – was given an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Gloria Hawkes, 64, a friend of Mary Martin, was caught up in the controversy earlier this year over a £4,139 taxi bill run up by Mrs Martin.

Mrs Hawkes’s discretion and loyalty were singled out in an official citation accompanying the announcement of her honour for community service yesterday.”

Martin’s a big man. You’d want a medal for cleaning up after him…

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