The long-awaited Kelly report into MPs' expenses could be watered down with at least one of its most stringent recommendations dropped, Harriet Harman, leader of the House of Commons, indicated

THE Prime Minister today accepted "in full" the Kelly report on MPs' expenses, and promised swift action to reform the system.

So the race to go further, faster, harder on expenses continues, with news in the Guardian this morning that any Labour MP who has "made improper expenses claims" will be "automatically deselected" and prevented from standing in the next election.  They also report that Brown has given his ministers until Monday to have their expenses claims for the past five years "l...

Sir Thomas Legg unveils his final report into the expenses claims made by MPs between 2004 and 2008. He will disclose which MPs have been forced to pay money back - and how much.

Roger Gale the MP for Thanet North in Kent has demanded an inquiry into how the details of Sir Christopher Kelly's report into MPs' expenses was leaked.

Today's publication of the Legg report and the release of details of MPs expenses claims for 2008/9 and 2009/10 has pushed the whole expenses issue back to the top of the news agenda. It also raises a few questions about Nadine Dorries's expenses, her blog and her staffing arrangements, that we'd really like to see answered.

I am perplexed by the decision of Gordon Brown to prevent the report into Shahid Malik's expenses from being published. Isn't this the man who has been saying he wants to be transparent about expenses? I cannot remember another example of the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner being gagged like this (apart from Elizabeth Filkin's experience, of course). I didn't even realise ...

MPs were set to lose the right to charge mortgage interest payments to the taxpayer and employ their own relatives on parliamentary expenses, under the recommendations of an e

A report on the Protest in Parliament square against Jacqui Smith’s expenses… The protest started off as a flaccid and lethargic protest to Jacqui Smith and her outrageous expenses which would be called theft if they happened in a private company. What started as a small piece of protest began to enlarge, gaining vigour and vitality as it pointed in a fierce yet longing way towards 10 Downing ...

Public distrust of politicians has hardened in the wake of the Telegraph's MPs' expenses revelations, a new report finds today.