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MP couple win squatter court bid | MP couple win squatter court bid |
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Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have won a court hearing to take their "main" home back from squatters. | |
A judge at Brentford County Court granted the couple an Interim Possession Order at a civil hearing. | A judge at Brentford County Court granted the couple an Interim Possession Order at a civil hearing. |
It comes as the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner confirmed the pair are facing a probe over the property. | |
Under Commons rules, they should have spent most of their nights there but it emerged last month that it had not been lived in for up to a year. | |
The couple insist they were only staying full-time at their taxpayer-funded "second" home - which is just nine miles away in Westminster - while renovations took place. | |
But a spokeswoman for standards commissioner John Lyon said: "The commissioner has received a complaint, and agreed to investigate it." | |
The squatters, who entered the empty property on 26 June, will have 24 hours to vacate the terraced property once the notice has been served. |