A politician who was upset when a weekly paper revealed his expenses claim threatened to go to the Press Complaints Commission if it refused to publish his complete statement of response.
The Llanelli Star ran a story about Welsh Assembly member Keith Davies racking up a bill of £4,846 for staying at Cardiff hotels.
Davies would not speak directly to the Star about his expenses, choosing instead to issue a statement through a Labour spokesman who said that, if the paper did not publish it in full, it would be reported to the PCC.
The paper ignored the threat. Star editor Bede MacGowan said: "It is entirely up to any politician how they communicate with the media, but... we believe elected members should be directly answerable to the people who put them there. And it is one of our jobs to hold them to account."
A PCC spokesman said today that, as yet, no complaint had been received.
Sources: HoldTheFrontPage/Llanelli Star
