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MPs and Peers referred to CPS over expenses

24.11.09
Video: Police investigating allegations of expenses fraud in Parliament referred four MPs and peers to the Crown Prosecution Service... more

Kiss goodbye to the golden payoffs, watchdog tells MPs

04.11.09
Latest: Call to strip greedy and disgraced MPs of 'golden goodbye' pay-offs made by the standards watchdog ... more

Police to target more MPs on expenses says Met chief

19.10.09
Police probe into MPs’ expenses could be widened, Sir Paul Stephenson said, in the clearest signal yet that the expenses scandal could see some politicians going to jail... more

Prosecutor to decide soon over MP expenses

23.07.09
Britain's top prosecutor vows to reach a decision 'as quickly as possible' on whether to bring charges over the MPs' expenses scandal ... more

MPs face possible arrest over expense claims

18.06.09
Scotland Yard officers could announce full criminal investigations into a handful of MPs over their expenses within weeks, chief reveals... 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

MPs who 'misled officials over exes' face police probe

05.06.09
Detectives investigating the complaints about MPs' expenses are to focus on a handful of politicians who may have deliberately misled Commons officials... more

Politicians who are standing down

05.06.09
These are the politicians who have announced they are quitting since the expenses scandal engulfed Westminster last month... more

Embattled Brown faces Cameron in Commons duel

03.06.09
Gordon Brown faces a Commons grilling after a day of resignations, fresh expenses revelations and party dissent fuelled fresh questions about his leadership... more

Ex-minister Morley set to be 13th victim of expenses scandal

29.05.09
Former minister Elliot Morley is set to become the 13th MP to stand down in the wake of the expenses scandal... more

Sir Paul must be bold over MPs’ expenses

28.05.09
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson is presiding over one of the most difficult investigations of his professional life...... more

MPs expenses: Police grilling in the Commons

28.05.09
Detectives examining complaints about MPs’ expenses are to seek a meeting in the Commons with officials from the Parliamentary fees office... more

Brown won’t be toppled by plotters, says Straw

27.05.09
Gordon Brown will not be “ousted” as Prime Minister no matter what happens in the European elections, claims Jack Straw... more

Why Energy MPs show the system is rotten

21.05.09
The current scandal over expenses underlines a wider truth about how key Commons committees are failing to hold industry to account... 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

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

MPs whose expenses might interest the police

18.05.09
MPs whose expenses might interest the police include...... more

Met chief: I'm ready to act on expenses

18.05.09
The head of the Met, Sir Paul Stephenson, says he is prepared to launch an inquiry into MPs’ expenses... 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

Balkan troubles for Oleg Deripaska

15.05.09
It's not getting any better for Oleg Deripaska. He’s already lost the bulk of his fortune - now the government of Montenegro is seeking to nationalise his giant aluminium plant because his workers haven’t been paid since February.. ... more

Labour support slumps to 22% as voters show fury

15.05.09
Labour's support was in meltdown as a new poll showed the party had slumped to a record low of 22 per cent... 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

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

MPs' expenses: it's now beyond a joke

14.05.09
It just gets worse. After the frankly comic element of the MPs' expenses-and-allowances farce remorselessly chronicled in the Daily Telegraph - claims for dog food, horse manure and chocolate HobNobs - there come the revelations that are downright worrying... more

Treasury Select Committee MPs don't have a clue

12.02.09
The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. ... more

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