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14 MAY: Mr MacKay resigns as a senior aide to David Cameron after details of his "unacceptable" expenses are made public.

22 MAY: Mr MacKay is heckled and called a "thieving toad" at a meeting with constituents in Bracknell.

23 MAY: Mr Cameron forces Mr MacKay to announce he will stand down as an MP at the next election.

24 MAY: Ms Kirkbride faces allegations that she allowed her brother to stay rent-free at her taxpayer-funded second home in Worcestershire.

26 MAY: The Evening Standard reveals she employs her sister as a £12,000-a-year secretary working from home in Dorset, more than 100 miles from the MP's Bromsgrove constituency and the Commons.

YESTERDAY: Ms Kirkbride fights to cling on to her job with a series of TV interviews. She admits she used taxpayers' money to fund a £50,000 extension to her second home.

TODAY: Ms Kirkbride takes to the airwaves this morning to defend her claims, insisting they helped her carry out her job as an MP and as a working mother.

LUNCHTIME: She bows to public anger in her constituency and announces she will not stand at the next election.