Gary Gibbon
MPs to be forced to repay Legg expenses money
The Speaker has written to MPs saying how the Commons will deal with the refuseniks who won’t pay up Sir Thomas Legg’s expenses demands.
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Gary Gibbon
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Jon Snow
Lord's expenses: the flight to redaction
Jon Snow blogs on the findings that Lord’s expenses are not receipted.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown ‘gets it’ on immigration: from expenses, to extremism?
Gordon Brown’s speech today is an acknowledgment that there is a vacuum in the public debate on immigration and that the government has not been doing enough lately to fill it.
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Gary Gibbon
Expenses review: a Kelly carrot on MPs’ pay
Sir Christopher Kelly’s report on MPs’ expenses calls for a law to stop the government interfering in MPs’ pay – but tighter powers for an expenses watchdog, as well.
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Jon Snow
Who is checking the Lords' expenses?
Why is there to be no ‘Legg style’ investigation into the expenses of members of the House of Lords? I have blogged before on the expenses culture in the House of Lords.
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Gary Gibbon
Expenses row: disks, Ws and duck houses
Tory high command is taking the view that David Wilshire’s expenses scandal in the Daily Telegraph is not an open and shut case like, say, Sir Peter Viggers.
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Gary Gibbon
Expenses: MPs await letters from Legg
The Legg audit is judging the fees office as much as the MPs, but what particularly annoys MPs is that Legg has put what they think are arbitrary numbers on what constitutes breaching the spirit of the rules and what doesn’t.
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Gary Gibbon
Legg’s expenses inquiry could mean more pain for MPs
When’s Legg over? A traditional summer holiday question… now being asked in the corridors of Westminster. Sir Thomas Legg is the man heading the inquiry into all MPs’ expenses claimed over the last four years. This is the piece of work that Gordon Brown called for and it could mean still more pain for MPs…
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Jon Snow
Expenses backlash for foreign office minister
The following correspondence has come my way…it shows the new foreign office minister charged with looking after Latin America, reaching out to Latin American interests in the UK. I’m wondering how many other ministers, opposition front benchers and MPs are in receipt of such anger from voters?
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron speaks on transparency – but show us the expenses!
I am at David Cameron’s speech at Imperial College listening to a paen of praise to the virtues of transparency, free information, transparency and accountability but at time of writing we have not yet been given the new additional list of Tory MPs who have had to pay back another £125k between them. We will,…
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Gary Gibbon
Alistair Darling to repay some of his expenses
If Gordon Brown does want to move Alistair Darling out of No. 11 his task just got a lot easier. Gordon Brown’s defence of Alistair Darling’s position over the £1,004 service charge on a flat in Lambeth sounded equivocal at 7am in TV interviews. The PM was fully standing by his “friend” by the time…
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Jon Snow
Tony Blair's expenses un-shredded!
I have been conducting an interesting correspondence with both Tony Blair’s office and the House of Commons commission which is currently dealing with MPs expenses. This follows my posting re. the shredding of Tony Blair’s expenses. A number of UK news outlets – the Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail among them – “revealed” that Blair’s…
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Jon Snow
'This is Gordon Brown. Now, about my expenses…'
The Telegraph editor-in-chief, Will Lewis, has been telling friends of the extraordinary night his newspaper went to press with the first of its revelations. In the middle of the evening he gets a call from the prime minister, Gordon Brown. Mr Brown is well aware of what is about to happen. His call is not…
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Jon Snow
Why were Tony Blair's expenses shredded?
There has still been no explanation forthcoming as to why, amid all the other expenses details to have emerged from the Commons, only one named MP’s expenses seem to have been shredded. It has been reported that other MPs’ expenses were also shredded. But I can only find the name of one MP to whom…
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Jon Snow
Lords' expenses: it's a wonderful life
I am reliably informed that when new peers arrive in the House of Lords, there is a kind of informal induction process. Baroness Helena Kennedy of The Shaws tells me that when she arrived in the house, a peer came up to her and almost immediately opened the question of “second homes”.