Pakistan airport-backing Labour MP faces standards probe into claims he broke Commons spending rules on accommodation and travel costs

A Labour MP is to beryllium formally investigated by the Commons' standards watchdog implicit claims helium broke spending rules, it was revealed today.

Tahir Ali, 53, is facing a probe by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) relating to 'spending connected bureau costs, question and accommodation'.

In a connection contiguous an Ipsa spokeswoman said: 'The Compliance Officer for Ipsa has opened an probe to find whether Mr Tahir Ali MP has breached spending rules nether IPSA’s Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs.

'The probe relates to the MP’s spending connected bureau costs, question and accommodation.'

The Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley has made headlines recently for championing the gathering of an airdrome successful Pakistan successful the mediate of a bin onslaught situation that saw rubbish heap up successful his constituency. 

He and 19 different MPs called for a caller aerial hub successful Mirpur, Kashmir, due to the fact that its lack was causing ‘significant issues to a fig of my constituents who are having to thrust implicit 3 hours to get to the nearest airdrome successful Pakistan’.

He was besides accused of demanding a blasphemy instrumentality when helium asked Keir Starmer past November 'to prohibit the desecration of each spiritual texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions'.

Mr Ali has been approached to comment.