TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps is among 16 Tory scrooges who clawed back Christmas Day expenses, the Morning Star can reveal, as cuts force more families to use foodbanks over the festive period.

Current Conservative MPs have claimed hundreds of pounds in expenses for travel on December 25 over the last 10 years.

By comparison, MPs from all other parties have claimed a mere £2.25 in total for such travel since 2010.