Cabinet and shadow cabinet ministers have begun repaying thousands of pounds in expenses which were deemed to be excessive.

Harriet Harman has defended her Cabinet colleagues after receipts detailing thousands of pounds in MPs' expenses were leaked.

A senior Labour MP is to step down at the next election just days after it was revealed he had returned thousands of pounds in the row over MPs' expenses claims.

VOTERS will go to the polls on Thursday seething with anger over the MPs' expenses scandal which has seen politicians pocket thousands of pounds in dodgy claims.

It has long been clear that the shadow Cabinet’s second jobs are a vulnerability just waiting to be exploited. Today’s Evening Standard brings an example of this: “THE TORY shadow cabinet has been raking in thousands of pounds in cash and perks from failing banks. Three prominent shadow cabinet members--William Hague, Ken Clarke and Francis Maude--who have supported criticism of ...

The MPs' expenses scandal saw the "terrorisation of Parliament", lawyers defending politicians charged with stealing tens of thousands of pounds told a court yesterday.

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...

Three former Cabinet ministers have been suspended by the Labour Party over allegations they were prepared to use their position to influence government policy for cash.

Three Cabinet ministers are facing questions over party funding after it emerged that they paid tens of thousands of pounds in rent to the Labour Party over the past four years.

SCOTS MPs are channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money to their local parties with payments for rent, utility bills and other "services", e