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

Water is an industry in need of reform, the last monopoly. Uniquely, water is the one utility essential to life itself. Our water supplier depends solely upon where we happen to live. Regional water boards became Public Limited Companies in 1989 and these were privatised the same year. There was no fundamental restructuring such as

Attempts by the new expenses regulator to water down the reform of Commons' allowances should be resisted, Gordon Brown has said.

Emergency plans to reform Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal have been heavily criticised by peers.

Gordon Brown's rushed plans to reform Westminster expenses, including replacing the controversial second homes allowance with a daily attendance fee for MPs, looked doomed last night as the prospect of an even greater expenses scandal began to loom large.

Conservative MP and Labour MP forced not to contest the next general election following MPs' expenses scandal.

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

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.

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 ...