Now there's a question – perhaps it is to raid the public purse, perhaps it is not to understand the lack of the separation of power that presently exists twixt the Executive and Parliament.
Writing on Politics Home, Gray asks: Is it really our job to deal with immigration appeals, benefits disputes, Child Support Agency arguments, planning applications, school placements and the like? Or does this divert us from our true purpose of holding the Government to account?
If the true purpose of an MP, as Gray would seem to suggest, is to hold the government to account, then readers can make up their own minds whether or not he has, based on this and this.