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MPs accused over free holidays

23.03.10
More than 20 MPs broke Commons rules by failing fully to declare luxury trips paid for by foreign governments, it was claimed... more

Cameron and Hague under pressure to sack 'non-dom' Ashcroft

19.03.10
William Hague under continuing pressure over Lord Ashcroft, after admitting he was wrong to claim the billionaire would pay 'tens of millions of pounds' more in tax if made a peer in 2000... more

Cleared Lord Ashcroft faces inquiry on peerage and tax

04.03.10
Tory tycoon Lord Ashcroft cleared of making illegal donations to the party but faced a new inquiry into his peerage and tax affairs... more

Call to investigate 'fat cat' public sector salaries

21.12.09
A Top Pay Commission should be set up to investigate "fat cat" salaries in the public sector and name and shame organisations that pay too much to senior officials, a committee of MPs said... more

Gordon Brown hit by poll disaster

24.07.09
Gordon Brown was fending off angry recriminations after Labour crashed to a humiliating defeat in the Norwich North by-election... more

A political day of reckoning in Norwich

24.07.09
Not since Alan Partridge has Norwich inspired such anticipation across the political spectrum... more

Latest: Gone in 33 seconds - Speaker falls on his sword

19.05.09
Michael Martin gives up his battle to stay on as Speaker in a statement lasting just 33 seconds... more

Brown retreats yet again over clamp on MPs’ expenses

30.04.09
Gordon Brown staged another climbdown as his expenses crackdown plunged into fiasco... more

Whitehall may strip Sir Fred of knighthood

23.04.09
Disgraced banker Sir Fred Goodwin could be stripped of his knighthood, MPs said... more

Victory for hunters as CPS says hounds can 'search' for foxes

04.03.09
Prosecutors have dropped an attempt to tighten the law on hunting with dogs in a key legal decision that is likely to reduce significantly the number of people taken to court... more

Brown aide ‘forced officials to publish flawed knife figures’

05.02.09
An aide to Gordon Brown has been accused of forcing civil servants to put out “selective” figures on knife crime... more

Brown stuns MPs with call for Osborne inquiry

22.10.08
Gordon Brown astonished Westminster by demanding an official probe into George Osborne's relationship with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska... more


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