Britain's expenses scandal claims another victim Michael Martin, the speaker of the British house of commons, has resigned after being criticized for his handling of the ongoing lawmaker expenses scandal. He is the highest-profile politician to resign so far.  The widening scandal began after the Daily Telegraph obtained a disk detailing expense reports by parliamentarians including tenn...

The scams are a legacy of New Labour's get-rich, ideology-lite culture. The remoralisation must go far beyond the Commons The House of Commons expenses scandal may have brought the British political class to a new nadir, but it's the country that will pay the price. David Cameron was yesterday hailed as a political master after he turned a week of Telegraph revelations about pocket-stuff...

The expenses scandal takes a new twist tonight. The Telegraph reveals that the House of Commons Fees Office has been complicit in allowing MPs to overclaim thousands of pounds in illicit mortgage claims. House of Commons officials colluded with MPs to let them make inflated claims on their mortgages, leaked internal documents seen by The Daily Telegraph have disclosed. Parliamentary authorities, o...

I believe that this wind that will blow away much of our political class was produced for - if not by - Boris Johnson. He is not currently in the House of Commons, but is Mayor of London. He has obvious ambitions to be at least the next but one Conservative Prime Minister. He is, so far as I can tell, the only person of significance likely to benefit from this expenses scandal. He benefits so far ...

Anthony Steen, the Tory grandee who claimed thousands in Commons' allowances on a house he compared to the Royal residence Balmoral, has blamed over-zealous rules for the MPs' expenses scandal.

David Cameron's Commons aide has become the first casualty of the expenses scandal, issuing his resignation this morning.

The House of Commons risks being "emasculated" by the Government's proposed cleanup following the expenses scandal the former parliamentary standards watchdog has warned.

MPs have seen a "cataclysmic" change for the worse in the wake of the expenses scandal, according to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The Conservatives have been firmly dragged into the MPs' expenses scandal today, with several high profile figures implicated by questionable claims.

Sir Christopher Kelly's report into the MPs' expenses scandal following The Daily Telegraph's revelations will recommend a shakeup of the system in the House of Commons. Here is a timeline of how the story developed.