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200 MPs could have to repay £1m expenses

12.11.09
Latest: Extent of the Commons expenses scandal was laid bare when it emerged that a third of MPs could be forced to pay back public money... more

200 MPs could have to repay £1m expenses

12.11.09
Latest: Extent of the Commons expenses scandal was laid bare when it emerged that a third of MPs could be forced to pay back public money... more

Senior MPs ‘use delaying tactics to avoid paying back expenses’

06.11.09
Senior MPs threatened to defy demands to repay expenses that were deemed to be over-claimed by auditor Sir Thomas Legg... more

Downing Street plays down reports of MPs' pay rise

21.10.09
Downing Street plays down suggestions that Gordon Brown plans to offer MPs a pay rise to buy off a backbench rebellion over their expected loss of income from expenses... more

MPs’ bid to avoid paying back expenses boosted by Legg error

21.10.09
Moves to force MPs to payback misclaimed expenses suffered a major blow as auditor Sir Thomas Legg admitted he had blundered over bills owed by top Tory Kenneth Clarke... more

Sir Thomas Legg smear campaign demeans politicians

20.10.09
The smear campaign by MPs facing large repayments of expenses against the independent auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, can only add to the impression that standards in public life have reached new lows... more

Brown tells Legg: Don’t put people off politics

20.10.09
Gordon Brown today appealed to the two watchdogs investigating MPs’ expenses to spare the axe or risk driving people out of politics... more

Sporting Miscellanies

19.10.09
Regarding the Freakiest Premier League Goal EVER, the one I feel really sorry isn't Rafa Benitez or Pepe Reina...it's Nena... more

Labour MPs: We'll force by-elections in expenses row

19.10.09
Five Labour MPs threaten Gordon Brown with hugely damaging by-elections if they are ordered to pay back their expenses... more

Police to target more MPs on expenses says Met chief

19.10.09
Police probe into MPs’ expenses could be widened, Sir Paul Stephenson said, in the clearest signal yet that the expenses scandal could see some politicians going to jail... more

Tory grandees who make thousands from their job on the side

19.10.09
Tory grandees criticised during the expenses scandal have been raking in thousands of pounds from second jobs, the Standard reveals... more

Pay back expenses, Harriet Harman tells angry MPs

16.10.09
Senior Cabinet minister urges MPs to pay back expenses demanded from them by independent auditor Sir Thomas Legg... more

Ann Keen's answer to expenses question: Get stuffed

16.10.09
Five London MPs are refusing to say if they are being asked to repay part of their Commons expenses... more

Be honourable and repay £100,000, Wilshire told

16.10.09
Tory MP David Wilshire urged to repay expenses of more than £100,000 that he reportedly directed into a firm which he jointly owned... more

Boris repays £1,200 to ‘get on with life’

15.10.09
Boris Johnson has been ordered to pay back £1,266 of expenses he claimed while an MP... more

Transport: Boris makes the best of a poor hand

15.10.09
The Mayor's announcement of substantial increases in public transport fares and the congestion charge will be genuinely painful for public transport users ... more

Speaker Bercow backs expenses curbs

15.10.09
Commons Speaker John Bercow signalled his support for the controversial backdated caps on MPs expenses as a fresh abuse allegation surfaced... more

MPs disclose contents of expenses letters

14.10.09
These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more

Sleazebuster targets dodgy expenses mortgage claims

14.10.09
MPS with dubious mortgage claims are being targeted for huge repayment bills causing panic as some owe tens of thousands of pounds... more

Laing repays £25,000 in fight to keep seat

14.10.09
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Gordon Brown should beware the great MPs' backlash

14.10.09
What is it with them? The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith this week issued an apology for her mistaken expenses so grudging she really does seem to believe she is the major victim of this demeaning affair... more

If university fees rise, loans must keep pace

13.10.09
Professor Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London, recently rated one of the world's top four universities, has warned that parents may have to save from birth to pay future college fees... more

Pay up or you won’t stand in election, says Cameron

13.10.09
David Cameron moved to outflank Labour over the MPs’ expenses scandal as it emerged that at least two of his senior allies have been ordered to repay four-figure sums... more

Revealed: What top Cabinet ministers have to repay

13.10.09
Top Cabinet ministers paid back hundreds of pounds in expenses deemed been 'excessive' by sleaze watchdog Sir Thomas Legg... more

Former Royal Marine with an independent streak

13.10.09
As a former Whitehall mandarin, Sir Thomas Legg was not expected to send Parliament into further turmoil... more

Back down on expenses, MPs warn sleaze chief

13.10.09
MPs move to rebuff demands for them to pay back thousands of pounds in expenses as Harriet Harman urges backbenchers to mount campaign to persuade Sir Thomas Legg to back down... more

Former minister will not have to pay back a penny

13.10.09
Tony McNulty’s hopes of being cleared over expenses affair receives boost after Sir Thomas Legg suggested he would not have to pay back his second homes allowance... more

Hogg: I have not been asked for a penny

13.10.09
Tory grandee Douglas Hogg says he has not been asked to repay a penny of his expenses claims... more

The political class has been rumbled

12.10.09
Just when you think the match is over, it turns out there's a second leg: or, in this case, Legg... more

Boris Johnson must get this road charge right charging

12.10.09
There is, in principle, everything to be said for a congestion charging system that targets users of London's busiest roads at the busiest times... more

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