Baroness Uddin, the Labour peer, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over her expenses claims.

THREE Labour MPs and a Conservative peer told a judge yesterday they will use a 320-year-old law to argue they should not be prosecuted over the expenses scandal.

As if the healthcare debate could not get any more difficult, Democrats are coping with a series of ethical controversies, writes Anna Fifield

As Republicans and Democrats squabble over who is most corrupt, the American people become more cynical about the entire political class.

You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has gro...

MPs are seeking to water down attempts to reform their allowances following the expenses scandal by complaining that they could be left with 'major cash flow problems'.

MPs have backed a series of reforms aimed at strengthening Parliament, recommended after the expenses scandal.

MPs will vote tomorrow on an amendment to the Government’s resolutions on the reform of Parliament, put forward by Evan Harris MP on behalf of the Wright Committee. (Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons.) The Wright Committee was set up as a response to the expenses scandal in 2009 to make recommendations on

Oh, dear. The Ego has finally landed. George Galloway thinks he's on a Mossad hit list.There can be no more crawling to the Israel lobby who mobilise thousands of sycophants to complain every time people like me write or broadcast items like this, hoping to intimidate editors and proprietors into putting a lid on criticism of Israel. It usually works. It frightened the BBC into the scandal of...

Victims of the thalidomide scandal will be given extra help through a £3.4 million fund announced by Scottish ministers.