Tory election spending: MP admitted to police some claims were wrong

Johnny Mercer, Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View, argued that mistakes in his expense claims were minor.A Conservative MP admitted in a police interview that some of his election expenses were wrong but excused the errors on the grounds that he had no previous political experience, according to a report on how police handled the inquiry.Johnny Mercer, Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View, was investigated by police after the general election in 2015 and a file was handed to the Crown Prosecution Service