‘Housing fraud? Blame my ex partner,’ says Labour MP

A Labour MP accused of social housing fraud  blamed her hard-drinking ex-husband for making bids for council properties behind her back. Apsana Begum, 31, claimed she was living in ‘overcrowded conditions’ with her family when she was in fact in a four-bedroomed house with three other people, jurors have been told. She did not tell police when she moved in with her partner, Ehtashamul Haque, and later blamed him for making an application in her name, Snaresbrook Crown Court has…