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Cameron allies 'fill boots' with second jobs

16.11.09
David Cameron's allies were today accused of 'filling their boots' from second jobs before being forced to quit them... 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

Dreading that conference? Try my party game

16.09.09
Party conference season, to borrow a phrase from the woefully dog-eared Big Book of Journalese, begins in earnest next week.... more

City Spy: Shining some light on Defence bids

07.09.09
The Gray report on defence procurement talks of £2.5 billion annual cost overruns on various MoD projects. One solution is to democratise the whole government procurement process... more

Tory’s £1,250 per hour for writing

29.06.09
Sennior Tory Michael Gove is earning up to £1,250 an hour for a newspaper column, the Tories disclosed today... more

Top Tories to give up second jobs by next year

29.06.09
David Cameron announces that all of his shadow ministers would give up their second jobs by the end of the year, but dismisses suggestions outside interests were incompatible with being a good MP ... more

Bank pays Oliver Letwin £60,000 a year

25.06.09
Senior Tory Oliver Letwin is paid £60k for working just an eight-hour week as controversy over second jobs mounts ... more

Truth behind London’s unlikely power couple

25.06.09
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Tories ditch second jobs in attempt to outflank voter fury

22.06.09
Tory policy chief Oliver Letwin leads a rush of shadow Cabinet ministers giving up lucrative second jobs... more

Cabinet ministers join scramble to pay back money

19.06.09
Three Cabinet ministers including would-be Chancellor Ed Balls have admitted over-claiming hundreds of pounds on their expenses for mortgages interest... more

We want to be chancellor but can't do expenses

19.06.09
The men who would be Chancellor - Labour's Ed Balls and Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne - today both admitted they had blundered in their Commons expenses and paid back money... more

50 MPs join stampede to hand back £500,000

18.06.09
About 50 MPs have rushed to repay £500,000 of taxpayers' cash following public outrage over their expenses... more

I'll still vote Tory, says the £5m donor expelled for backing UKIP

27.05.09
One Sunday, three months ago, Stuart Wheeler received a curt email from the Tory chairman, Eric Pickles, saying he'd been expelled from the party ... more

Hague ends after-dinner speeches

15.05.09
Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has decided to quit his outside directorships and end his after-dinner speeches, the Standard has learned... more

Those who lie down with Hoggs

13.05.09
The revelations about MPs' expenses - Tories, in particular - has left a string of City folk looking red-faced... ... more

Payback time for greedy MPs over expenses

13.05.09
The “payback” of MPs expenses gathered pace as ministers and Labour MPs scrambled to refund the taxpayer... more

What they claimed: MPs expenses in full

12.05.09
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David Cameron: Pay back expenses or you’re sacked

12.05.09
David Cameron warned Tory MPs to pay back ‘dodgy’ expenses or be sacked... more

Tories in trouble - claim for 25 lightbulbs

11.05.09
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Politicians face curbs on second jobs outside Commons

08.04.09
Some MPs collecting tens of thousands of pounds in expenses are working “part-time” in Parliament, Gordon Brown has admitted... more

Trustees face a disaster dilemma

28.01.09
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Senior Tories earn thousands from banks they criticise

22.01.09
The Tory shadow cabinet has been raking in thousands of pounds in cash and perks from failing banks... more

Hague is new Tory No 2, putting Osborne in shade

14.01.09
David Cameron has promoted William Hague to be "my deputy in all but name"... more

Crucial move from cronies to proper shadow team

14.01.09
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Brown tells of day he invited burglar into his parents' home

30.12.08
Gordon Brown told how as a child he let a notorious burglar into his parents' home... more

Politics

08.10.08
The Tories are in the ascendancy and gaining influence. Already the key figures in Westminster and beyond are thinking about the post-Brown generation.... more

Tories to set out how they will run the country at party rally

11.08.08
David Cameron will seek to propel the Tories towards government at his party's autumn rally by openly talking about how they would run Britain... more

Canary Wharf outwits City to lure JPMorgan

05.08.08
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Call to ban MPs from lucrative second jobs

24.07.08
MPs could be banned from taking second jobs under plans being drawn up by a minister... more

Storm that could blow Labour out of office

19.03.08
Turbulence in the markets, fall-out from Northern Rock and a Budget that has hit hardworking families: it's a miracle that the PM's ratings aren't even worse... more

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