Dominic Grieve may give up second home

In an interview with the Advertiser, Mr Grieve, whose main home is a family house in West Kensington, said he has started to feel that he should move to a flat, and that he discussed this with his barrister wife Caroline some time ago.
Mr Grieve has neither been outed by the Daily Telegraph as a Demon nor lauded by it as an Angel in its recent series of exposes on Mps expenses.
Mr Grieve claimed a total of £128,343 in expenses in 2007-8, of which £18,668 were for the cottage, a stone's throw from the Thames, which he rents for just over £1,500 per month. He will have to subsidise the rent by over £300 per month under new rules on expenses announced on Tuesday. He also claimed £1616.44 for council tax and £141 for gardening. He claimed nothing for furniture or bills.
Mr Grieve stays in the cottage most Thursday and Friday evenings to attend to constituency duties, and more often in September.
He said: "If I have an engagement which ends at 11.40pm I can be there in five minutes, and then there's frequently another at 9.30am the next day. If I travelled back to London it would be much more difficult, plus I need somewhere to keep clothes and all the apparatus for living.
"Whether I stay there on a Saturday depends on family arrangements. I can have everybody in the house (his sons are 13 and 15) if I have to be there for constituency reasons because there are things we do collectively as a family. But my boys are getting older now and they are becoming more independent. The cottage has been useful to me, but I've always kept in mind is this justified... and I have given thought as to whether I should make new arrangements."
Since becoming shadow home secretary and now shadow justice minister he is "herding around the country a bit more" and spending less time in the cottage, he said.
Mr Grieve's expenses were discussed, at his own request, by the constituency Conservatives at a meeting on Monday.