Rossendale and Darwen MP Jake Berry backs new skills’ initiative (From Lancashire Telegraph)

• "Didn't Tory MP Nick Bowles recently have free Hebrew lessons paid for via an expenses claim. I don't see him making any move to repay his tuition and training despite him probably attaining the earning threshold. Then again suggestions have been made that it wasn't done to further his career; some people have alleged that it was to communicate with his new partner who happens to be an Israeli. Similarly the multi-millionaire culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has also had £3000 of Mandarin lessons and coincidently he married a Chinese woman two years ago. I know it's a cliché, but it is one rule for them and another for us. Education and training should be a right. Let's face it, when people get better, well paid jobs the increase in tax revenue and the need not to claim top up benefits or unemployment benefits will fund the training."
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