Lib Dem intern still waiting for expenses

Today’s Western Mail helpfully points out that Nick Clegg’s former intern Keiran Mathers is still waiting for his expenses.

Mather’s shabby treatment as an unpaid worker in the Lib Dem leader’s Sheffield office served to damage the credibility of the government’s flagship social mobility initiative - along with the ConDem leadership behind it.

  

The paper reports, “On Tuesday Mr Clegg called for measures to ensure interns were not left out of pocket.

“I thought it was ironic,” Mr Mathers said.

He explained: “They said, ‘We’ll pay your expenses.’ They didn’t put it in writing but it was a definite promise.”

He reckons he lost out on around £140. He submitted details of his expenses but never received any cash.

Today, Mathers lives in Cardiff and works for an international examinations body. Unsurprisingly, he is no longer a Lib Dem supporter.