Former home secretary Jacqui Smith has defended her use of two day-release prisoners to paint her £450,000 home when they should have been doing community work... more
Jacqui Smith has opened up about the porn scandal which ended her career and has suggested her expenses were scrutinised more because she is a woman... more
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith suffered a humiliating defeat, becoming one of Labour's most high-profile casualties in the general election... more
Gordon Brown faces a Commons grilling after a day of resignations, fresh expenses revelations and party dissent fuelled fresh questions about his leadership... more
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
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
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
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
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
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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