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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

The rise (again) of Peter Mandelson - Gordon Brown's best frenemy

10.06.09
One man holds the Prime Minister’s fate in his hands — but was saving him the right thing to do?... more

Pound drops as plotters tell ministers: Finish Brown off

04.06.09
Gordon Brown is tonight bunkered down at No.10 while Labour plotters beg the Cabinet to oust him... more

Brown is scared of calling snap election, goads Cameron

20.05.09
David Cameron accuses Gordon Brown of running scared after he ruled out a snap general election over MPs expenses scandal... more

Gordon Brown sets up punishment panel for expense cheats

19.05.09
Labour MPs are facing mass expulsions after Gordon Brown finally got tough over the expenses scandal setting up a “star chamber” with the power to kick out MPs guilty of claiming too much... more

Moat expenses MP says sorry and steps down

19.05.09
The Tory MP who claimed for clearing the moat at his country estate said today he is to stand down at the next general election... more

Brown warns MPs to expect disciplinary action

18.05.09
Gordon Brown warned MPs who abuse their expenses to expect disciplinary action today amid suggestions that hundreds could be forced to retire... more

Brown ready to axe backbencher who claimed for phantom mortgage

18.05.09
Another MP was facing suspension from the Labour party after it emerged that he colluded with Commons officials to make inflated expenses claims... more

Speaker to reveal expenses reform plans

18.05.09
Commons Speaker Michael Martin will set out expenses reform plans to MPs in a bid to quell rapidly-escalating demands for him to quit over his handling of the scandal... more

Top Labour and Tory MPs are first victims in expenses scandal

14.05.09
Former minister suspended in day of panic-induced scalpings at Westminster which also saw a Tory MP resign as aide to David Cameron and two peers publicly disgraced... more

Ex-minister pays the price for ghost mortgage

14.05.09
Former minister Elliot Morley was suspended as a Labour MP after it emerged he claimed £16,000 for a mortgage that did not exist... more

Cabinet rivalries led to Brown's defeat over Gurkhas, claims Keith Vaz

06.05.09
Cabinet infighting has been blamed for the Government's humiliating defeat over the Gurkhas... more

End of a bad week: Labour MPs say Brown is 'doomed'

01.05.09
Gordon Brown took a fresh battering as Labour MPs said he was “doomed” and former cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he was ashamed to be in the party... more

Don’t pin the blame on me for Gurkhas, says Smith

01.05.09
Jacqui Smith was at the centre of an extraordinary blame game over who should carry the can for the Gurkha fiasco... more

Crisis? What crisis? MPs take a 12-week holiday

20.04.09
MPs have awarded themselves an extra week’s summer holiday — in the middle of the worst recession for a century... more

Chief Whip orders 'idle' MPs to pull their weight

20.03.09
MPs are to face new work-rate targets after a Cabinet minister admitted some Labour backbenchers were "idle"... more

More ministerial aides join revolt at Royal Mail sell-off

25.02.09
Three more ministerial aides have joined the revolt over the Royal Mail sell-off... more

Labour aides may quit as Royal Mail revolt hits Cabinet

24.02.09
The revolt over the Royal Mail has spread to the Cabinet... more

Brown withdraws bid to keep MPs' expenses secret

21.01.09
Gordon Brown has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over attempts to keep details of MPs' expenses secret... more

‘Lift tax in North but not South’ London

20.11.08
London businesses blasted a minister for suggesting that a property tax should be abolished in the North but was “appropriate” for the capital... more

42-day detention Bill to be shelved after U-turn

06.10.08
Gordon Brown began an embarrassing retreat on his plan to hold terrorist suspects for up to 42 days without charge... more

Mandelson is back to rescue Brown

03.10.08
Twice-resigned Peter Mandelson has staged an astonishing comeback to the Cabinet... more

Brown ready for showdown with rebels after Kelly leak

25.09.08
Gordon Brown is preparing for a showdown with rebel Labour MPs on the day the Commons returns from its summer break... more

Comment: Even ministers whisper that the game is up

25.07.08
Gordon Brown will not fall on his sword - that was the Prime Minister's clear message as he gazed past the wreckage of Glasgow East to his favourite terrain, the long term... more

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