Zaradi Zakona o dostopu v Britaniji odstopil predsednik stranke
+ -V Veliki Britaniji je zaradi podatkov, razkritih na zahtevo po Zakonu o dostopu do informacij, odstopil predsednik škotske konzervativne stranke. Razkriti računi pričajo, da je predsednik stranke DAVID McLetchie denarna sredstva stranke uporabljal za plačevanje zasebnih taksi prevozov.THE SCOTTISH FOIA NETS ITS FIRST SCANDAL: DAVID McLetchie resigned as leader of the Scottish Conservative Party yesterday after learning that party activists had deserted him in the row over his taxi expenses.Mr McLetchie said he realised that the ongoing controversy over his travel claims - which had dragged on for 260 days - was hurting the party and felt he had no option but to step down from the leadership with immediate effect.Mr McLetchie had been under increasing pressure over his taxi claims since February when the first allegations surfaced about his use of parliamentary taxis to travel to his private law firm.The Scottish Tory leader has insisted all year that the taxis he took were for parliamentary or constituency business, not for personal or business reasons - which would be strictly against the rules.But the crisis became acute last week when it emerged that there were some contentious taxi claims which Mr McLetchie simply could not explain, including some to the home of Tory activist Lady Sian Biddulph who said Mr McLetchie had been to see her on "party business".In doing so he unwittingly secured himself a position in British political history - as the first high-profile victim of the Freedom of Information Act. The details of his taxi claims were released under the legislation which only came into force at the start of the year.http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2175322005