David Cameron and 10 other members of the shadow cabinet have been referred to the Westminster sleaze watchdog after using Parliamentary expenses to make payments to their constituency associations.

Latest No2EU press release: No2EU – Yes to Democracy sends out call for protest vote over MP’s and EU sleaze on June 4th Britain’s newest political grouping, No2EU-Yes to Democracy, today sent out a message to voters disgusted by the trail of sleaze from Westminster to Strasbourg – if you want to punish the political elite don’t get sucked in by the fascists and the f...

In what has to be one of the most exciting political moves in a very long time, Libertas today began a Stamp Out Sleaze campaign designed to establish a whole new set of standards for political behaviour. There will be five pledges in total, with the first one launched today; a promise to print all expense claims in detail, including receipts and discussion of why the payment was necessary. Libert...

The memories of political commentators are short. It is remarkable how little the name of Elizabeth Filkin has featured in discussion of the current massive sleaze revelations. The outcry against Commons sleaze at the end of the Major government led to a toughening up of regulation. The Blair government found this inconvenient, particularly when standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin was investig...

No Mandate Brown has almost finished rearranging the deckchairs on the SS New Liebour and so far successfully produced a cabinet that promises to be as ineffectual, incompetent and sleaze-ridden as the last one. More so, in fact, thanks to the addition of Peter Mandleson. Mandleson has already had to resign from the British government

Brown, Blears and Straw are among cabinet members who will be revealed by the Telegraph tomorrow as having scammed their expenses. It appears that Jacqui Smith was the tip of the iceberg.

Asked for details of upcoming Cabinet meetings, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that there would be a Cabinet meeting next week. He did not have any information on political Cabinet meetings. original source.

Astonishing news today in the Sunday Mail is the claim that two "senior Labour figures" — one apparently a Cabinet member, no less — have been leaking information to the Conservatives in connection with an attempt to shoe that Gordon Brown is guilty of sleaze. It looks as though this has been going on for at least two years; and the claim regarding a Cabinet member appears in a letter from

In his letter to the Daily Telegraph yesterday, Peter Kilfoyle described David Miliband as a political lightweight. It provoked a reader to email and point out the comparison between Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet of 1988 and the current Cabinet. Put aside your own partisan views and ask yourself how many of today's Cabinet would outrank those in the Cabinet of twenty years ago. Prime Minis...

What planet is Nick Robinson on? The BBC's political editor seems incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong. His comments on his blog today about Jacqui Smith and question marks over her probity once again reveals an inability to remain objective when reporting about Labour sleaze. Perhaps Robinson is resisting pressure once again, as is his wont. Irrespective of this there is a lack of