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Former MP Denis MacShane has been jailed for six months for expenses fraud after admitting submitting 19 fake receipts amounting to £12,900.

He is the fifth MP to get a prison sentence after 2009's expenses scandal.

MacShane, 65, was a Labour MP for 18 years and served as Europe minister under Tony Blair between 2002 and 2005.

Mr Justice Sweeney said MacShane had "deliberately created misleading and deceptive invoices" with the dishonesty involved "considerable".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25492017