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...

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

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.

Michael Martin is to step down as Speaker of the House of Commons over the MPs' expenses scandal.

Tom Griffin (London, OK): The ongoing debacle in the House of Commons this week overshadowed an equally significant scandal in the House of Lords. A day after Michael Martin became the first Speaker of the Commons to be forced out since 1695, Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn became the first peers to face suspension from the Lords since 1642. The latter landmark is in...

MPs will vote tomorrow on an amendment to the Government’s resolutions on the reform of Parliament, put forward by Evan Harris MP on behalf of the Wright Committee. (Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons.) The Wright Committee was set up as a response to the expenses scandal in 2009 to make recommendations on

The expenses scandal did more to damage Parliament than anything except the Nazi bombs which destroyed the Commons chamber, John Bercow, the Speaker of the House, has said.

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...