Gary Gibbon
Byers saga: last twists in a Jacobean revenge tragedy
Tory HQ had been puzzling how to keep the Byers story going tomorrow but the latest twist in the Brown-Blair wars has sorted that out for them, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
MPs’ expenses: there WILL be legislation
There will be legislation to enact part of the Kelly Report on re-thinking MPs’ expenses, it was announced today.
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Gary Gibbon
Message to MPs – don’t pray for a Kelly rewrite
MPs praying for a rewrite of the Kelly report on expenses, on the basis of reports in the last few days, are whistling in the dark, writes Gary Gibbon.
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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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Gary Gibbon
Will MPs now conspire to dilute the Kelly proposals?
As the widely leaked report into MPs’ expenses is published, its author, Sir Christopher Kelly, is hopeful he can get a version of his proposed rules in place by the first day after a post-election parliament.
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Gary Gibbon
MPs forced to bare all for voters
The leaked contents of Sir Christopher Kelly report into MPs’ expenses say members will have to declare to their constituents where they will work on the side.
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Gary Gibbon
Days are numbered for MPs’ £25 unreceipted allowance
The £25 per day subsistence allowance for MPs splashed across the front page of the Daily Telegraph today has been claimed by MPs since it appeared in the Green Book of expenses rules in March 2009. But don’t expect it to last much longer. Sir Christopher Kelly’s Committee on Standards in Public Life produces its reforms in…
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Gary Gibbon
Brown must fear a badly timed Chilcot report
Gordon Brown has a habit of upsetting people he’s asked to conduct inquiries. Adair Turner didn’t look like a man who’d like to take up another commission from Gordon Brown after his pensions inquiry. More recently, Sir Christopher Kelly’s team looking at MPs’ expenses was repeatedly publicly harried by No.10 and didn’t appreciate it.