Labour dumps expense row MP Devine

Party stalwart is barred from standing at next election over claims for work by bogus firm

'Star chamber' rules Devine can't be Labour candidate

LABOUR MP Jim Devine last night became the latest casualty of the expenses scandal when he was banned from representing the party at the next election.

The Livingston MP was referred to Labour's "star chamber" after he was accused of submitting a bogus claim for electrical work at his flat.

He is alleged to have submitted receipts for GBP 2,157 of work from a firm that does not exist.

Questions were also raised about 66 metres of office shelving, said to have been provided by the landlord of his local pub, for which he …