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• Tory whip Jeremy Wright appealing against MPs expenses payback demand

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Jeremy Wright disputes order to repay £800 for mobile bills A Conservative whip is one of the 80 MPs appealing against the Commons auditors demand to pay back expenses. Jeremy Wright, who has been ordered to repay nearly £800 he claimed for mobile phone bills, appears to be the first Conservative or Labour ...
  4 hours ago

• 2009: A year in politics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Guardian political team look back at the thrills and spills of the last 12 months at Westminster, including MPs expenses, Gordon Browns continuing problems - and the third rise of Peter Mandelson Allegra Stratton Jackie Ashley Tom Clark Georgina Henry Julian Glover
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• Is Plaid an "anti-establishment" party?

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 419
  A very brief post at Politics Cymru mentions how Plaid havent been able to capitalise on the malaise that the three mainstream British parties have found themselves in as a result of the ongoing expenses crises. Although the pieces conclusion (that being excluded from TV debates will restore the partys ...
  6 hours ago

• If politicians want to be trusted again, they must learn to listen

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The internet gives people more power over their lives - and over their leaders, too, argues Jeremy Hunt.
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• MPs expenses: the worst ever year for politics?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  With widespread abuse of the expenses system revealed, was 2009 the worst year ever?
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• MPs expenses: John Bercow describes disastrous year for the Commons

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  MPs have seen a "cataclysmic" change for the worse in the wake of the expenses scandal, according to John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons.
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• MPs expenses: transparency is best

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Telegraph View: David Camerons party has responded well to the expenses scandal - with one exception.
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• MPs and Westminster: Strictly politics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The great annual voting climax has passed. At the weekend, Strictly Come Dancing salsad off into its sequinned winter hibernation. Though pipped at the post for the No 1 spot, the X factors Joe McElderry is celebrating his first week as a bona fide pop star. If it were not for Christmas, a terrible depression ...
  2 days ago

• Golfs 19th hole rivals parliaments lobby for its cosiness

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Just like the MPs expenses scandal, Tiger Woods shenanigans reveal how chummy reporters on his sport can be with players Everywhere the golf correspondent for the Washington Post goes these days, people keep asking him the same question: Did you have any idea this (ie Tigers goings-on) was going on? And Leonard ...
  3 days ago

• Copenhagen was the MPs expenses scandal writ large

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The futile climate-change negotiations at Copenhagen revealed the same contempt for the public as the MPs expenses scandal, says Matthew dAncona.
  3 days ago

• Shadow cabinet repays £25,000 in controversial expenses claims

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Sum represents amount paid back by 13 shadow ministers in response to final letters sent by Sir Thomas Legg saying how much money should be repaid by individual MPs Members of the shadow cabinet have repaid a further £25,000 in response to demands from the Commons auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, the Conservative party ...
  4 days ago

• Tory MP Julie Kirkbride to stand down at election

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Bromsgrove MP who faced heavy criticism over expenses will not contest seat in next years poll The Tory MP Julie Kirkbride has decided to stand down at the next general election after heavy criticism of her expenses claims, she announced today. The backbencher had been reconsidering her initial plans to quit, which ...
  4 days ago

• MPs, Legg, and reality…

  
  Ron's Rants... — Authority: 131
  MPs Jeremy Browne, Bernard Jenkin and Frank Cook (and up to 70  others, it was announced this morning), all say they are going to appeal against Sir Thomas Legg’s findings. Quite right too – it’s a shame many more MP don’t have the balls. Legg angered many MPs because he moved the goalposts,  announcing ...
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• Government minister paid more than £40,000 in expenses to sister

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Sion Simon, a Culture minister, claimed a rented north London property, was his "second home" for expenses purposes, but It can now be disclosed that it was owned by his sister Ceri Erskine.
  5 days ago

• Simon Hoggarts political review 2009

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  From the most catastrophic rebuke to the most improbable confession, all in the 2009 review of politics Most alarming image of the year Gordon Browns smile on YouTube . Described as "weird", "spooky" and "looks as if it was Photoshopped by someone who hates him", I thought it resembled an older man trying to ...
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• 80 MPs challenge expenses rulings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  High number of appeals illustrates extent to which Sir Thomas Legg has infuriated MPs by imposing retrospective rules Eighty MPs are challenging the results of the review process set up to ensure the repayment of expense claims allowed in the past but now deemed questionable, it was revealed today. The figure, ...
  5 days ago

• MPs expenses: the story that changed politics

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The Daily Telegraphs six-week investigation into MPs expenses was not only the defining story of 2009, but one which changed British politics for good.
  5 days ago

• Lib Dem MP Jeremy Browne appeals against decision which would have stopped him buying Taunton home

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Heres the statement on Jeremys website: Taunton constituency MP Jeremy Browne is appealing against a decision by the House of Commons ACA Review Team that would have prevented him from buying a home in Taunton with his own money. Instead Sir Thomas Leggs House of Commons ACA Review Team has requested a repayment of ...
  5 days ago

• MPs: Dozens challenge payback rulings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  MPs have until 3pm to say whether they want to appeal against Sir Thomas Leggs findings Dozens of MPs are challenging rulings from the Commons auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, ordering them to repay parliamentary expenses, it was revealed today. MPs have until 3pm to say whether they want to appeal against Leggs findings ...
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• The travel subsidy for journalists

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 630
  The media had a field day reporting and condemning the travel subsidy for MPs. For weeks on end we had story after story. But there was one story the media forgot to cover. It was the one about their massive travel subsidy to attend CHOGM in Trinidad and Tobago. You see seven journalists flew to this lovely resort ...
  6 days ago

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