What is it about MEPs and their expenses? Why is it so hard for them to trust the public to see what they spend our money on? The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that both our Tory and Labour MEPs voted to keep their expenses secret, nobbling the legislation that would have forced the information into the open. I think that criticism in relation to expenses is often misdirected. Expenses themselv...

Update: Julia Goldsworthy is to return £1005 claimed on that darned chair. Quite right too! It's an appalling amount of money to claim for a chair!Julia Goldsworthy has responded to the Telegraph report this morning here:RESPONSE TO TELEGRAPH ARTICLE12.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 13th May 2009In its report today, the Daily Telegraph has focused on some claims I made under the MPs expenses scheme.

MPs’ expenses – where to begin? I haven’t waded through the Telegraph’s coverage over the past few days: glanced at parts, picked up many of the references via blogs, but couldn’t bring myself to read it all. Why not? Simple: I don’t trust the Telegraph to report the story with any degree of objectivity. All

Voters have praised The Daily Telegraph's handling of the MPs' expenses scandal after the disclosure that the information was leaked by a mole angry at the underfunding of British troops in Afghanistan.

The initial report on the Damian Green arrest on the Telegraph website (see clip below from Google news) stated he had "been arrested under the Official Secrets Act". I based my post yesterday on that report. I have since noticed that the Telegraph have changed their report to take out the reference to the Official Secrets Act. Indeed, Andrew Rawnsley today says: Mr Green was not detained under

The Daily Telegraph has been praised for performing "a great public service" in disclosing the details of MPs' expenses by former politicians commentators and bloggers who backed the investigation.

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

The short answer is that no-one can know how the deep public anger against MPs will play out. When the Telegraph led for two days on Labour MPs it looked very bad for the government. But now each party’s skeletons have come out of the expenses records filing cabinets the public mood seems...

Telegraph View: Every other individual who receives public money for personal expenses has to provide an account of it that taxpayers can inspect. MPs should be no different.

The Telegraph has revealed that MPs will now receive a months ‘grace period’ before the full details of their expenses claims are published. Before details are made public, MPs will be able to use the appeal period to decide which entries are a risk to their security and therefore should be omitted from the public