Labour MP in ‘£64k housing swindle’

A Labour MP has denied carrying out a housing fraud which cost a local authority £64,000. Apsana Begum, 30, won the east London seat of Poplar and Limehouse with a 28,904 majority in the general election last December. Begum appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today (tues) facing three counts of fraud dating between 18 January 2013 and 31 March 2016. She wore a black hijab in the dock, speaking to confirm her name and indicate not guilty pleas to the…