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Ex-Commons speaker Michael Martin takes Lords seat Queen clears way for Michael Martin peerage as MPs applaud his 'eminence' Crocodile tears as MPs praise Speaker they hounded out Speaker was 'leant on' to fight expenses case Latest: Gone in 33 seconds - Speaker falls on his sword Speaker to reveal expenses reform plans Speaker lynched over expenses scandal in last-ditch bid to save job

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Labour sends in big guns for campaign's final few days

09.11.09
Two leading Labour cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow to help increase votes as the campaigning in the by-election in the city enters its last days... more

Met denies 'tricking' way in to search MP's office

03.11.09
Scotland Yard has vowed to fight claims a senior officer 'tricked' a Commons official into allowing the controversial search of an MP's Parliamentary office... more

Ex-Commons speaker Michael Martin takes Lords seat

13.10.09
Michael Martin took his seat in the Lords following his resignation as Commons Speaker earlier this year... more

Queen agrees peerage for ousted Martin

01.07.09
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Queen clears way for Michael Martin peerage as MPs applaud his 'eminence'

30.06.09
Queen paves way for a peerage for Michael Martin despite him being the first Commons Speaker to be ousted for more than 300 years... more

Crocodile tears as MPs praise Speaker they hounded out

17.06.09
It is barely three weeks since the Commons Speaker Michael Martin was politically assassinated, but MPs decided to praise as well as bury him in his last appearance... more

Speaker was 'leant on' to fight expenses case

28.05.09
Commons Speaker Michael Martin was leant on by "very senior political sources" to fight efforts to make MPs' expenses more transparent, it was claimed... more

A single scalp won't clear up this mess

20.05.09
Ritual slaughter concluded, an eerie air hangs over the Commons. Everyone, apart from a few loyalists of the shop steward tendency, knows Michael Martin was out of his depth and had to go... more

Speaker does not deserve to be granted seat in Lords, say peers

20.05.09
Michael Martin should be denied a peerage, two members of the Lords said. Former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson led calls for the Speaker not to be elevated to the Upper Chamber... more

If the Speaker will not jump, push him

19.05.09
The Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, had an admittedly difficult job yesterday, to preside over questions from MPs saying that he should go. And, characteristically, he flunked it... more

Profile: Former metal worker who took a beating

19.05.09
“The guy never took any advice when he was in office, and he’s still not taking any advice.”... more

The Speaker was right to resign

19.05.09
The Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, has finally fallen victim to the expenses scandal, an impressive scalp for those who have campaigned for MPs to be brought to account for the wilful abuse by many of their allowances and expenses. He said today that he will step down on 21 June, after instigating reform of the system... 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

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

Campaign to oust Speaker gains cross-party support

18.05.09
15 MPs back historic motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker Michael Martin... more

MPs’ expenses row: the Speaker must go

18.05.09
While the crisis over MPs’ expenses is claiming an increasing number of parliamentarians, the focus is now shifting to the embattled Speaker, Michael Martin... more

Speaker lynched over expenses scandal in last-ditch bid to save job

18.05.09
Michael Martin grovelled for his job this afternoon in the Commons as he came under devastating attack from MPs... more

Senior MPs pile pressure on Speaker to fall on his sword

15.05.09
Speaker Michael Martin has come under unprecedented pressure from senior parliamentarians to quit... more

Opposition MPs line up to denounce wounded Speaker

14.05.09
Top Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers today joined unprecedented moves to oust Michael Martin... more

Drive to unseat Speaker gathers pace

13.05.09
Speaker Michael Martin faced an open revolt against his authority... more

MPs plot to oust Speaker after ‘disgraceful’ attack

12.05.09
Commons Speaker Michael Martin faced unprecedented criticism as a plot to unseat him was launched at Westminster... more

Brown puts his 'full confidence' in Martin

04.12.08
Gordon Brown propped up Speaker Michael Martin today by saying he had "full confidence" in him.... more

Harman and Beckett refuse to back Martin

04.12.08
Support for Speaker Michael Martin drained away as two senior ministers refused to express confidence in him... more

Harman ducks questions of confidence in Martin over Green fiasco

04.12.08
Harriet Harman has undermined Speaker Michael Martin by repeatedly refusing to express confidence in him... more

Tearful Speaker admits blunders over raid

03.12.08
Police had no warrant to search the parliamentary office of Tory MP Damian Green, the House of Commons Speaker admitted ... more

Apologise for police raid on MP 'or you're toast', Speaker told

03.12.08
Commons Speaker Michael Martin has been warned "say sorry or you're toast" over his failure to stop police raiding a senior MP's office... more

Martin has failed in his duty and is not fit to hold office says top QC

03.12.08
Leading QC Geoffrey Robertson has said that the Commons Speaker had to resign because he had failed in his legal duty to defend Parliament... more

The Speaker’s crucial errors

03.12.08
The statement by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, about the arrest of the Tory frontbencher, Damian Green last week, was not intended to turn into a full-blown debate... more

'Speaker has no authority and has to go'

02.12.08
A Conservative MP has launched the first move in his bid to oust Commons Speaker Michael Martin who he accused of failing to stop police raiding the parliamentary office of Damian Green... more

Speaker faces being forced out after raid

01.12.08
Commons Speaker Michael Martin may be pressed to take early retirement at the next election in the wake of the Damian Green affair, the Standard has learned.... more

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