Telegraph View: It would be unjust not to tell the public which MPs are still under investigation in the expenses scandal
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Telegraph on 19th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The public has been "betrayed" by Parliament's response to The Daily Telegraph's expenses disclosures in the months since the scandal broke Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrat leader has said.
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Telegraph on 23rd Jul 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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.
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Telegraph on 25th Sep 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
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...
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Tigmoo on 15th May 2009 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)
Clegg’s response to the expenses scandal Let’s start by giving praise where it is due - Nick Clegg may not have done the truly brave thing and published everyone’s expenses before the Telegraph could, but he did haveone real, concrete response ready for the expenses scandal and it was this: Liberal Democrat MPs will pass all
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 15th May 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
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
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 27th Aug 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Over the last two days the Telegraph has splashed its front pages here and here with a reminder of the Parliamentary expenses scandal of a few months ago. I shared the opinion of most people I know, that the Daily Telegraph was right to publish MP's expenses, even if the way they were 'leaked' was a bit underhand. If this had not happened, we would never have found out what was goin...
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AViewFromRuralWales on 27th Sep 2009 (via glyndaviesam.blogspot.com)
It's day six of the Telegraph's revelations about MPs expenses and one curious feature of the scandal is that it does not yet have a name. This is highly unusual in running stories about political wrongdoing but is, I suspect, a symptom of the enormity of the story. Usually by this point a racy sounding soubriquet has been concocted by broadcasters for their graphics, but not this time. ...
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IainMartin on 13th May 2009 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
All MPs are to be given the chance to explain their conduct in the growing scandal over MPs' expenses courtesy of Telegraph TV
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Telegraph on 12th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Another clutch of embarrassing parliamentary expenses claims were revealed today as the public mood over the revelations turned increasingly angry.
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TheIndependent on 15th May 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)