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Lord Hanningfield - Former Conservative Peer

20/08/2012 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Lord Hanningfield - Former Conservative Peer

We speak to Lord Hanningfield, who was jailed after a parliamentary expenses scandal.

Gavin Esler talks to Lord Hanningfield, a former Conservative peer and former leader of Essex County Council, who was jailed in the wake of the expenses scandal.

The expenses scandal tarnished those at the very heart of British democracy. Some politicians in the so-called Mother of Parliaments were shown to be greedy and a few criminal. 

A handful went to jail and one of those is the former Conservative peer and former leader of Essex County Council Lord Hanningfield. 

So why did he do it? Is there something fundamentally wrong with Britain's political culture and with those who go into politics? And what lessons can a lawmaker learn from prison?

(Image: Lord Hanningfield)

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