There is no doubt that the whole political system is suffering a crisis of confidence following the daily updates on MPs’ expenses in the Daily Telegraph. It is not unreasonable for MPs to receive expenses to help offset the costs of living in or near their constituences and in London....

From the Daily Telegraph website this evening: Like MPs from all parties, Liberal Democrats have used their expenses to carry out lavish decorating work and refurbishment of their second homes, often putting the stamp duty and legal costs associated with buying their houses on their expenses. Expenses claims submitted by 12 Liberal Democrats, from senior spokesmen to a number of backbenchers, will...

Telegraph Will this re-ignite the anger? After a period when the Telegraph’s daily revelations about MPs expenses were starting to get a bit routine the paper has turned once again to the detailed affairs of the cabinet - folk you would think would have the political skills to know better. Thus the main lead in the Telegraph

Labour was last night considering suspending the whip from a third MP over his mortgage-related expenses after the Daily Telegraph alleged that Ben Chapman, the MP for Wirral South, was given permission by Commons authorities to claim taxpayer-funded allowances for part of a mortgage he had already repaid. In its latest expenses revelations the Telegraph said correspondence showed the MP sought, a...

Was the serialising of MP’s expenses by the Daily Telegraph an act to expose those honourable servants of the House of Parliament or was it to undermine the European elections in an attempt to increase the votes of UKIP and UKIP MEP's? Some say this could have been issued after the European election, when all the expenses would have been sorted.

OK, now the dead tree press, aka "The Daily Telegraph" has published the expenses of all the parties. Labour- Yueeeeech, Tories.. clean moat, Sir? Lib Dem- nice to see you look after your daughter, Mr. George. Now, will the Journalists on the Telegraph please publish their expenses. Oooooh Noooo- we work for a private company... "Power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot through ...

Over the last two days the Telegraph has splashed its front pages here and here with a reminder of the Parliamentary expenses scandal of a few months ago. I shared the opinion of most people I know, that the Daily Telegraph was right to publish MP's expenses, even if the way they were 'leaked' was a bit underhand. If this had not happened, we would never have found out what was goin...

A Scottish Labour MP “outed” herself after she wrongly thought she was about to be exposed by the Daily Telegraph over her expenses claims.

Daily Telegraph broke story of MPs' allowances with special investigation The Expenses Files.

George Galloway is having a bit of a time of it at the moment. He's always getting stick from somewhere or other but recently he was, outrageously, banned from entering Canada because of his hard line anti-war stance. If that wasn't enough the Telegraph has launched it's yearly attack on him over expenses. Using the not recognised at all system of dividing the amount of expenses an MP claims by th...