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Speaker Bercow backs expenses curbs

15.10.09
Commons Speaker John Bercow signalled his support for the controversial backdated caps on MPs expenses as a fresh abuse allegation surfaced... more

Jacqui Smith apologises over expenses claims

12.10.09
Latest: Former home secretary Jacqui Smith apologised for wrongly designating her family house as a second home for expenses purposes... 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

Brought down by husband’s porn and sister’s spare room

02.06.09
Jacqui Smith's career was destroyed in the cruellest way possible, with revelations that her husband watched porn movies in their constituency home while she was working in London... more

Brown's Cabinet chaos as Balls tipped for Chancellor

02.06.09
Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle was plunging into disarray this afternoon as ministers openly jostled for position... more

Porn in the home - it's the nation's dirty secret

01.04.09
One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the "entertainment" that was charged by Richard Timney - Jacqui Smith's husband - to the taxpayers' account... more

Sorry Jacqui, but you’ve had your moral comeuppance

31.03.09
Since the sad departure of Neil and Christine Hamilton from public life we have suffered as a nation from the lack of a comic political double-act. So, in these gloomy times, we must be grateful that the MPs' expenses scandal has at last brought us promising successors to that golden couple: welcome to the Richard and Jacqui show.... more

MPs still playing the system

30.03.09
The Prime Minister has said that the Home Secretary’s use of parliamentary expenses to pay for pornographic films which her husband watched was “very much a personal matter” ... more

Jacqui, we’re all on the gravy train

30.03.09
The row over the Commons gravy train deepened as Jacqui Smith and other MPs were revealed to be claiming the maximum or near to the limit allowed for second homes... more

Porn film expenses: Let Smith get back to work says Brown

30.03.09
Gordon Brown has tried to defuse the row over Jacqui Smith's future by saying her expense claims for two porn movies were "a personal matter"... more

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