Blog posts tagged "Expenses"

April 7, 2010 9:11 am 45 Comments

Whilst the rest of us were yesterday marking that benchmark moment in our democracy when an election is called, the House of Lords was the scene of an awful climax to their Lordships’ expenses scandal. 78-year-old Lord Clarke of Hampstead was being flogged at the yard arm. Hard to know whether to feel sorry or [...]

February 16, 2010 12:54 pm 12 Comments

Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Commons standards watchdog is reported today to be in a hurry to fix a new regime for MPs’ expenses before the next election ushers in a new slew of MPs. There is no such hurry in the House of Lords. Nor is anyone in the Lords over anxious [...]

November 12, 2009 6:05 pm No Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the findings that Lord's expenses are not receipted.

October 26, 2009 1:55 pm No Comments

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.

May 28, 2009 11:36 am 57 Comments

If the expenses scandal is about anything, it is about the public’s right to know what politicians do in their name and with their money. Yet as the parties attempt to purge the transgressors, all the indications are that the same secrecy and attempted cover-up that led to the leaking of MPs’ expenses to the [...]