THE Westminster expenses scandal should be used as a springboard for major constitutional reform in the UK, campaigners have said.

Nick Clegg has today penned an article for The Daily Telegraph urging the Labour and Tory parties to take action to reform Parliament in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal. Here’s an excerpt: The new political season is beginning. Spring and early summer were defined by the expenses scandal, but what will the autumn be

As the expenses scandal enters a third week, ministers and MPs are demanding an overhaul of the political system. Now leading public figures have entered the debate through the columns of the Observer, with a call for a referendum on a new method for electing the House of Commons Alan Johnson, the health secretary, has joined a cabinet push for a major overhaul of the way Britain is governed, in w...

All three party leaders have outlined their suggestions for full-scale parliamentary reform, with the prime minister suggesting he might give constituents the right to recall their MP.

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...

Nick Clegg has outlined a 100-day plan to reform parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Only twelve months ago, newspapers were full of outrage as scandal after scandal emerged about MPs' expenses. The reputation of Parliament dropped to an all-time low. MPs felt the full force of public hostility.

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

Over the weekend I was invited to observe the campaign group Power2010's "Deliberative Democracy" event in London, designed to take forward the agenda for electoral reform. But it seems deeply unlikely that the expenses scandal has changed politics that much, even in an election year. At best, I predict that Power2010 will elicit the usual mealy-mouthed fob-off rhetoric from the major parties...

Thus the prime minister has finally responded to the slow-burning scandal of MPs' expenses - a scandal those close to him fear could taint his government just as one word - "sleaze" - tainted John Major's. At first, Gordon Brown insisted that the question of how to reform MPs' expenses was a matter for Parliament not for him or the government. Indeed, when proposals very similar to ...