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Following Mondays news that three of the four MPs charged with fiddling their expenses would receive legal aid for legal representation at their trials expected later this year, the Prime Minister has stated that he ‘thinks’ the three former Labour MPs  will have to pay back the publicly funded legal aid that they are to [...]

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Conservative MP Nadine Jones has said on her blog that Westminster has become ‘unbearable’ over the last two weeks as The Daily Telegraph continues it’s serial publication of MPs expenses. She warns that some MPs are ‘beginning to crack’ and ‘everyone fears a suicide.’
The poor woman goes on to suggest that the Telegraph expenses disclosures [...]

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At long last  Michael Martin bowed to pressure from within Parliament to resign his post as House of Commons speaker yesterday, a word in the ear from PM Gordon Brown seemingly bringing the speaker to his senses, but there is absolutely no chance that the scandal raised over MPs expenses will go away.
Quite rightly, the [...]

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