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Expenses MP Jim Devine’s car-crash interview

Expenses MP Jim Devine’s car-crash interview

When the Labour MP Jim Devine defended fraud as “moving money around”.

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Exclusive: Lord Paul responds to official report recommending his suspension

“I am disappointed that I seem to have been treated more harshly than others.”

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Expenses chief quits . . .

. . . but will Alan Johnson pull a “David Davis” and quit too?

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Expenses peer still can't resign

Expenses peer still can't resign

Tory peer charged over his expenses can't leave the Lords.

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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

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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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Action to salvage the people's trust

Parliament must move quickly to reform the disgraced expenses arrangements or voters will never forgive MPs

Less than honourable

MPs led by the Speaker have disgraced our democracy. The only certainty now is unprecedented voter alienation

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Turn your back on a bad lot

. . . on toffs’ expenses, C P Snow and why sometimes it’s best to walk away

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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