Beneath it too, sweating like a trooper in a thick body-stocking of foam rubber, was Ben Chapman.

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Two other Labour MPs - David Chaytor and Ben Chapman - have also admitted "errors" in claiming for mortgages that had already been paid off.

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Confirmation that the Dee Estuary was to be formally designated an SAC came in the Commons in response to a question from Ben Chapman, the Labour MP for Wirral South.

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