British Tory leaving parliament because of a corruption scandal.

Dear Member of the British Parliament, Anthony Steen intends to resign in connection with a corruption scandal. This May 20, Sky News reported, citing its sources.
Anthony Steen, who is considered one of the most authoritative representatives of the Conservative Party, accused of frivolous spending of tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' funds. Among the expenditures, which, according to British media, reimbursed himself from the budget of Steen, the care of his suburban estate, including over 500 trees on its territory, plumbing repair and installation of the fireplace.
Steen has not yet made a formal statement on the resignation. May 19, from the office refused the British Parliament Speaker Michael Martin. Prior to that, Martin called on to retire all the deputies of the expenditure are published in the press.
For information on the costs of deputies appeared in The Daily Telegraph in mid-May. According to data released in the newspaper, expenses of members of parliament were formally legal but unreasonable from the standpoint of common sense. In the corruption scandals have been implicated as members of the Conservative or Labor Party is too "freely" Controlling the right to reparation for work-related expenses.