Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne says complaints about his election campaign, yesterday proven false, were ‘politically motivated’.

The Energy Secretary was yesterday cleared of any wrongdoing by the Electoral Commission, after allegations were made that his expenses claims during the 2010 general election were under reported.

The Commission found that the cost of his campaign website was £45.15, rather than the £35 stated, but noted that this still left him well within his spending limits.

It also found that the decision to allocate spending totalling around £5,400 to the national Liberal Democrat campaign, rather than to Mr Huhne's personal campaign for the Eastleigh seat, was “reasonable and in line with Electoral Commission guidance”.

Mr Huhne welcomed the findings yesterday and said that the complaint made by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics was ‘misinformed’.

He said: “The Electoral Commission is very clear that the campaign was properly within the legal limits, as I always maintained, and I am delighted that we have such a clear conclusion to this investigation.

“This is the second review caused by misinformed and politically-motivated complaints, and it now means that all the complaints concerning my campaign have been rejected.”