Stoke Conservative councillor Steve Boggs is to step down from office after a Daily Outcake investigation revealed he had claimed expenses to get his second home in Longton crazy-paved.
Boggs says he will not run in forthcoming council elections following public outrage over the £23,000 work on his property, which he refuses to pay back. "It was a legitimate public expense," said Boggs. "I understand the public anger over people claiming for shit like moat-cleaning, but this work needed doing."
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Boggs is not the first Stoke councillor who has had to step down over expenses claims. Bentilee BNP councillor Dave Rommel was forced to resign by council elders in 2009 after it was discovered he had claimed expenses for cocaine and strippers at a night out at Lapland UK in Hanley.
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