Guess who said this about whom: a) Caroline Spelman, on the subject of Matthew Lewis, who engaged in a spot of McCann baiting at a New Year party (of which I am not entirely innocent), or b) Matthew Lewis, on the subject of Caroline Spelman, who used taxpayers' money to pay for her private nanny?* * Please note, I accept that it is difficult for mothers of younger children to carry out their ...

The news that Ray Lewis has resigned begs the question as to whether there is truth to the rumours about him.Yesterday, during the press conference he and Boris Johnson did, Ray Lewis stated clearly that he would resign if the allegations were proved to be true.

Caroline Spelman has been cleared of intentionally breaching commons expenses rules. However, the Commons standards and privileges committee said Caroline must repay £9,600. In its report, the committee said Spelman: "Had little time in which to prepare for membership of the House. "Her limited familiarity with the Rules of the House at the time is understandable. "Mrs Spelman also faced a b...

Contrary to reports elsewhere, I understand that John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner, will not conclude his inquiry into nannygate any time soon. Rumours had been flying that Caroline Spelman would learn her fate as early as tomorrow. But while Mrs Spelman has now been interviewed by the sleaze watchdog, none of the other witnesses involved in the case have been spoken to, and she is yet to ...

Ray Lewis said yesterday he was a magistrate. Boris Johnson repeated this claim. Today it has been revealed he was not and never has been a magistrate.Yesterday Boris Johnson introduced Ray Lewis as a former prison Governor, yet even in the press conference Mr Lewis admitted, as I understood him to say, that he had never been the governor of a prison and was instead a senior warder who had a grade...

Wow, just wow. I was out all evening with family and didn't hear about the resignation of Ray Lewis until I got in. Will this damage Boris Johnson? More at Boris Watch. Update: Ken Livingstone pulls no punches with his view of Ray Lewis' resignation: “In a mere two months in office Boris Johnson has already suffered the

The calls are growing for Caroline Spelman to be sacked over the nannygate expense scandal. This week, Michael Portillo added his name to the clamour of voices (mainly Labour ones and Newsnight’s Michael Crick) calling for her to go.Although there is no evidence to suggest that Spelman over spent her office allowance or spent any more than other MPs, it increasingly looks as though she techn...

Eric Pickles, the Conservatives' local government spokesman, is being lined up as a potential replacement for party chairman Caroline Spelman.

A Tory nobody has been kicked out of the party for being quite breathtakingly tasteless. Caroline Spelman has revoked Matthew Lewis’ membership of the party after he made some comments about having gone to a fancy dress party dressed as kidnapped child Maddy McCann. Spelman has no known plans to revoke the membership of racists within the

What really matters is not the titles people hold or the location of their offices but what they actually achieve. What did Boris Johnson want from Ray Lewis? It was all set out very clearly in an Evening Standard article...