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MPs' expenses

June 2024

  • Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross

    Watchdog says expense claims by Scottish Tory leader ‘within rules’

    Douglas Ross was investigated over allegations he filed for travel to third job as part-time match official

March 2024

  • Philip Davies and Esther McVey

    Esther McVey claims expenses to rent flat while husband lets out nearby home

    ‘Minister for common sense’ who has criticised Whitehall waste is said to have received £39,000 in two years

February 2024

  • Paul Maynard

    MPs’ expenses watchdog investigates claims against minister

    Paul Maynard is accused of using his taxpayer-funded constituency office for Tory campaigning

January 2024

  • Paul Maynard's parliamentary portrait

    PM urged to suspend whip from pensions minister accused of misusing taxpayer funds

    Paul Maynard under investigation by MPs’ expenses watchdog over claims he charged taxpayers for political campaign services

December 2023

  • James Cleverly (C right) sitting alongside Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons, in London, on December 6, 2023

    The Guardian view on the crisis in politics: better politicians need better standards

    Editorial: Over the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at whether the forthcoming general election can restore political trust

November 2023

  • MPs expenses row<br>File photo dated 15-10-2009 of Sir Thomas Legg as the results of his review into MPs' expenses will finally be published today. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday February 04, 2010. See PA story POLITICS Expenses. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire

    Sir Thomas Legg obituary

    Former permanent secretary in the Lord Chancellor’s Department who presided over the public inquiry into MPs’ expenses

August 2023

  • The Houses of Parliament in London

    Financial support to double for MPs who lose seats in UK election

    Winding-up payments to rise to £17,300 and will also be given to those not seeking re-election

July 2023

  • Rachel Reeves (centre) in the House of Commons in June.

    Corbyn and Reeves among MPs who claimed accountants’ fees on expenses

  • Tom Brake

    MPs holding undeclared shares destroys trust, threatening our fragile democracy

    Tom Brake

May 2023

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The case of the missing bathrobes … what Liz Truss’s latest gaffe tells us about grubbiness and greed

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Did a member of the ex-PM’s team pilfer some dressing gowns? If so, it wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen on her watch, but it represents a particular, pernicious form of Westminster entitlement, writes Arwa Mahdawi

February 2023

  • Janet Anderson, Labour MP for Rossendale and Darwen, in 1999.

    Janet Anderson obituary

    Labour minister whose campaign skills forced government action on a range of life-saving social changes in the law

November 2022

  • Larry the Cat, Britain's Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, stands by a Christmas wreath hanging on the door of 10 Downing Street

    Watchdog apologises for saying MPs’ Christmas party costs are claimable

  • Jess Phillips

    MPs criticise guidance allowing them to claim Christmas party expenses

April 2022

  • Donald Trump,Nigel Farage<br>FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage, to speak at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss. USA. Farage, the self-declared “pantomime villain” of Brexit, told the Associated Press Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020, he is leaving the European Union's parliament in Strasbourg later this week with a sense of mission accomplished. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: why we stopped trusting elites – podcast

    This week, from 2018: The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it’s too late to turn back the clock

March 2022

  • The P&O ferry Pride of Canterbury is pictured moored to the quayside at the Port of Dover.

    Brief letters
    Waiving the right to decent pay at sea

    Brief letters: Poor deal for ferry workers | Women on the plough | Signing off as Mum | Partygate fines
  • Boris Johnson making a statement to MPs in the House of Commons in London.

    If MPs are getting a decent pay rise, so should the rest of us

    It is time for all public sector pay to be related to that of MPs, says Gerard Cavalier. Plus letters from Syd Vaughan and Patricia Baker-Cassidy
  • MPs in the House of Commons

    MPs to get £2,200 pay rise next month

    Increase of 2.7% comes against backdrop of significant economic hardship for many Britons

November 2021

  • Liverpool's anglican cathedral

    Brief letters
    Europe’s top cathedrals? Give the British aisles a try

    Brief letters: Best cathedrals | Raspberry challenge | Christmas puddings past | Curates’ pay
  • Geoffrey Cox leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, in February 2020.

    The Observer view on parliamentary standards

    As the Geoffrey Cox afffair proves it’s time to stop this naked greed in politics
  • Geoffrey Cox MP

    Close loophole benefiting MPs with London property, say senior Tories

    Peter Bottomley among those who want reform of system that allows MPs to let London homes then claim rental expenses elsewhere
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