I'm a little surprised why the BBC have waited till now to flag up what this hypocritical individual tried to get away with.
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Former miners' union leader Arthur Scargill tried to use laws introduced by Margaret Thatcher to buy a council flat in London, the BBC has found.
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In 1993 he applied to buy the flat on the prestigious Barbican estate under the right-to-buy scheme championed by Thatcher, his political enemy.
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The rent on the flat was paid to the Corporation of London by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), of which Mr Scargill was the then president.
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The papers relate to a 2013 court case in which Mr Scargill lost the right to stay in his London flat for life at the expense of the NUM.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25731328