Denis MacShane the former Labour MP and Europe Minister who resigned from the House of Commons after being found to have submitted 19 false expenses invoices, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday to false accounting. The 65-year-old Catholic is said to have come to terms with the fact that he may be sent to prison when he is sentenced on 19 December. One of those advising him to plead guilty was his friend Lord (Daniel) Brennan, the president of the Catholic Union of Great Britain. The two have several times discussed MacShane’s plight at political conferences in Spain, a country both men are interested in. Lord Brennan is also a leading QC – might he also have advised MacShane that pleading not guilty would have gone down badly with a jury in an age of unprecedented dis
21 November 2013, The Tablet
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