Expenses Scandal

Clegg's bold expenses intervention

Will his call for the inquiry to be widened succeed?

MPs' anger over expenses repayments grows

Brown and Cameron struggle to contain rebellion over Sir Thomas Legg's repayment demands

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Disgraced MPs should follow Profumo's example

The worst expenses abusers should carry out Profumo-style good works

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Cameron warns Tory MPs: Pay back expenses or stand down

Tory leader says that MPs who fail to repay expenses will be banned from standing for the party

Gordon Brown to repay over £12,000 in expenses

Independent auditor also sends letters questioning the expenses of Lib Dem and Tory leaders

Jacqui Smith ordered to apologise to the Commons

Inquiry concludes former home secretary broke the rules on second home expenses

Alan Duncan sacked from shadow cabinet

Tory front-bencher demoted for saying that "the world has gone mad" over expenses

John Bercow: what were you thinking?

The Speaker seems to have forgotten what he was elected for

Burning down the House

Bereft of ideas, the party leaders are ransacking the storehouse of history. Yet, in their very desperation, they are sowing the seeds of destruction of our political system

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End of the party

Unlike the Profumo affair, which had no lasting significance, the scandal over MPs’ expenses is the gravest constitutional crisis of modern times

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