He is a high-profile professional who has caused public outrage by acting within a framework that has more loopholes than the Nemesis. Sir Fred? No. It’s the MP for Harrow East, Tony McNulty. The Labour politician has denied wrongdoing in claiming £12,000 second home allowance on his parent’s property less than ten miles from his Hammersmith home. In doing so, he has tacitly admitted he acted questionably: I have said these things need to be looked at. There are anomalies. What the case of McNulty shows is a systemic readiness to abuse MPs allowances, much as bankers across the City have shown a propensity towards playing within a lax framework of taxation and regulation. McNulty may not have done wrong officially, but it is plainly ridiculous…