Celebrity property and Government stainage... it's turning into a sleazy day of property news. The latest features the former flat of Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, who apparently charged the tax payer £100 a month in cleaning fees on his small Covent Garden flat, but managed to lose his deposit when his landlord arrived to find stains not just on the floor but up the walls too. That's correct, the Work and Pensions Secretary left damp patches. He also left a sink which might yet prove to have been the original breeding ground for swine flu. Irritatingly (some may say astonishingly) he also had a girlfriend, who appears to have shared the property at the taxpayers' expense.

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