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• UKIP leader Lord Pearson claimed £100,000 allowances for £3.7m London home

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Lord Pearson claimed for his £3.7m "second home" while also living in a 12,000-acre estate with servants in Scotland.
  21 hours ago

• Adam’s Trougher of the Week

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  Senior National back bencher Lindsay Tisch for having the gall to use the MPs expense rules in a creative manner, especially as he is a Deputy Speaker.
  2 days ago

• Review recommends pay rise for peers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Senior Salaries Review Board proposes single daily allowance for Lords, which amounts to £38.50 increase A review into the system of Lords allowances initiated after the expenses scandal has recommended that peers should receive what amounts to a pay rise. In June 2009 the government asked the Senior Salaries ...
  4 days ago

• Diana coroner to join expense watchdog

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Lord Justice Scott Baker is to join the board of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority The judge who sat as coroner in the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to join the new independent body overseeing MPs expenses. Lord Justice Scott Baker and three other candidates for the board of ...
  5 days ago

• Do the Wright thing

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown is in danger of losing the plot about the need to fix our politics. Never the most decisive protagonist in the expenses crisis, last week he left both expenses and electoral reform out of the Queens speech. He then said nothing at all about mending the political system when he spoke to MPs at the start of ...
  5 days ago

• This wont rebuild the Commons | Natascha Engel

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  I cant support my committees response to the MPs expenses scandal, as it fails to address the democratic deficit Today parliament publishes its response to the MPs expenses scandal. A special select committee on parliamentary reform was set up by Gordon Brown and it has published a report called Rebuilding the ...
  6 days ago

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  The Appalling Strangeness — Authority: 137
  Only four ? Jesus, thats not a lot. And this is still very early in the process. We still arent even at the point of charges being brought, let alone getting to a trial. Still, better than nothing. And I look forward to learning which four cases have been transferred to prosecutors...
  6 days ago

• A little Christmas lagniappe from the Met?

  
  Barnacle Bill — Authority: 129
  I must admit when I first heard that the Met had only forwarded four cases for possible prosecution to the CPS in the MPs expenses scandal I was disappointed, but I am assured that there are more in the pipeline. I have two worries over this, the first is that both the Police and CPS have suffered from too much ...
  6 days ago

• MPs expenses: police send files on four MPs and peers to CPS

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Director of prosecutions to decide if trials take place • Accused parliamentarians all deny wrongdoing Scotland Yard believes it has uncovered enough evidence to bring criminal charges against four MPs and peers for allegedly abusing their expenses. Police announced they had sent files of evidence concerning ...
  6 days ago

• CPS asked to consider charging parliamentarians

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Police have not named the four, but they reportedly include members of both Lords and Commons Prosecutors have been asked to consider charging four parliamentarians in relation to expenses abuses, Scotland Yard said today. Files on four cases have been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service following a police ...
  1 week ago

• MPs expenses: four police files go to prosecutors

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Scotland Yard detectives have passed files to prosecutors on MPs and peers facing criminal charges of fraud over their expenses claims.
  1 week ago

• Tory MP Richard Spring to stand down

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Conservative member for West Suffolk becomes latest MP to join exodus from the Commons as he announces he will step down at the general election Conservative Richard Spring became the latest MP to join the growing exodus from the Commons today when he announced he would step down at the next general election. ...
  1 week ago

• Standards committee faces dilemma over David Curry inquiry | Andrew Sparrow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  If body does not launch investigation it will look like it is protecting one of its own; if it does it will be ignoring its own advice On Friday David Curry announced that he was standing down as chairman of the Commons standards and privileges committee after allegations about his expenses appeared in the Daily ...
  1 week ago

• MPs expenses: Andrew Dismore consulting colleagues over future

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Labour MP caught in fresh expenses controversy is consulting colleagues on whether he should resign from the committee governing MPs conduct
  1 week ago

• Spike knew about MP’s Expenses all along

  
  Ewan Spence's All New Musings. — Authority: 499
  With the current news tap still flowing every week with another MP doing something that any regular member of the public would find distasteful (rules or not) I retreated to the safety of some very old episodes of The Goon Show. Specifically an episode called The Jet Propelled Guided Naffi. And you know what? There ...
  1 week ago

• The Goon Show and MP’s Expenses

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 441
  Spike Milligan knew about the current expenses scandal all along With the current news tap still flowing every week with another MP doing something that any regular member of the public would find distasteful (rules or not) I retreated to the safety of some very old episodes of The Goon Show. Specifically an ...
  1 week ago

• Why I couldnt draw a full MPs salary | Anneliese Dodds

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The expenses scandal allows us to reconsider the faulty logic that insists professionals be paid so much more than others I have been asked to explain why, if elected as an MP, I would take the average wage for people living in my constituency (Reading East), and invest the rest in an improved service for my ...
  1 week ago

• Morning must-reads

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 137
  Henry Porter asks why the Tories keep disappointing him whenever he thinks it’s time to vote for them.UK Polling Report provides invaluable analysis of the IpsosMORI poll that puts the Tory lead at just 6pts.The Telegraph has more revelations about MPs: this time a Labour member of the Commons Standards and ...
  1 week ago

• Andrew Dismore MP urged to resign from standards watchdog

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A second member of the parliamentary committee that regulates MPs conduct is facing a call to step down over his expenses. Andrew Dismore reportedly claimed £34,000 in second home allowances for a west London flat, where his girlfriend runs a homeopathy clinic, while declaring a property just a few miles away in his ...
  1 week ago

• MPs expenses: ethics MP faces call to step down over use of £65000 allowances

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Andrew Dismore becomes the second member of the Commons committee that governs the conduct of MPs to face a call to step down over his use of £65000 in parliamentary allowances.
  1 week ago

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