Lib Dem rising star suspended

FORMER British Liberal Democrat treasury minister David Laws was suspended for seven days from the British parliament and ordered to apologise by a committee of inquiry for breaking expenses rules.

Laws, a close ally of Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, resigned just 17 days after the party entered coalition with the Conservatives in May last year.

A former investment banker, he was seen as a rising Lib Dem star and both Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron have said they would like to see him return to frontline politics.