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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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