Watch tomorrow's House of Commons order paper for confirmation that the key House of Commons expenses committee will swap one anti-reform DUP MP with another. Despite not having attended a single meeting of the Members Allowances committee the DUP are retaining the minority party place by rotating Nigel Dodds with Jeffrey Donaldson. My whips sources tell me that this is much more preferable to...

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

Move part of a reform of Parliament brought on by the expenses scandal John Bercow the Commons Speaker has said.

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 ...

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...

"For Parliamentary democracy to work, a robust executive - strong government - must be balanced by a healthy legislature - by a flourishing House of Commons. That the Commons has been sick for many years is incontestable. The tragedy of the expenses scandal is that the patient, in consequence, is likely to receive a bigger dose of the medicine that's causing the illness - namely, professional...

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.

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

A cross-party committee of MPs has called for a shake-up of the internal mechanisms of the House of Commons in an attempt to restore the public's faith in parliament