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+ PM: recent weeks 'among worst' + Gordon Brown admits recent events have been among the worst in his political life and made him think he could "walk away from this ...

+ MPs 'over-claimed' on council tax + More than 50 MPs have claimed expenses for council tax they have not paid, the Daily Telegraph ...

+ MPs pay back £500,000 + MPs have now repaid nearly £500,000 in expenses claimed since 2003, the Parliamentary Authorities ...

+ Police examine Lib Dems donation + Police look into money laundering allegations over the Liberal Democrats' acceptance of £2.4m from a donor later convicted of ...

+ Protest at Iran's 'evil UK' claim + The UK tells Iran that Ayatollah Khamenei's description of the British government as "evil" is ...

+ Lady Thatcher has surgery on arm + Former PM Lady Thatcher is recovering after routine surgery and will stay in hospital until next week, her son has ...

+ Mandelson 'reassured' by US on GM + Business Minister Lord Mandelson says the US government has given a "positive response" to his case for continued GM production in the ...

+ End expenses censorship - Cameron + Tory leader David Cameron says MPs' expenses should be published without major areas blacked out. ...

+ Tories take Sir Alan to BBC Trust + The Conservative Party formally complains to the BBC Trust over the decision Sir Alan Sugar will continue to front The ...

+ Families to sue for forces deaths + Four families of servicemen killed in Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq and Afghanistan are to sue the Ministry of Defence, the BBC ...

+ Blears survives confidence motion + Hazel Blears survives an attempt to force her deselection at a meeting of her constituency party in ...

+ Falconer backs public Iraq probe + Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer is calling for the Iraq inquiry to be "largely in ...

+ Find out what your MP claimed in expenses and allowances + Find out about your MP's expenses ...

+ Q&A: The expenses furore explained + A guide to what the expenses furore is all ...

+ Devine faces new expenses claims + Labour MP Jim Devine defends himself against new revelations about his ...

+ MPs' expenses made public online + The expenses claims of every MP over the past four years have been published online - but with certain key details kept ...

+ Cameron pays back more expenses + David Cameron repays nearly £1,000 he had claimed on expenses after what he calls a "thorough review" of his ...

+ Martin's parting shot on expenses + Michael Martin turns his fire on party leaders in his farewell address to MPs as Commons ...

+ Expenses: Options for reform + How you, and the big parties, want the rules changed ...

+ Nick Robinson + Are the generals winning the Iraq inquiry ...

+ Expenses scrutiny + What you spotted - and what MPs had to say about ...

+ Why I paid it back + Ten MPs who returned expenses money explain ...

+ Open Secrets + MPs' expenses latest: The missing ...

+ Speaker's corner + Candidates make their cases at televised ...

+ New media guru + What today's politicians can learn from the ...

+ Probation 'told to under-spend' + After Jack Straw blamed a budget underspend for probation service failings, the BBC sees a letter that appears to encourage ...

+ RBS boss does 'the right thing' + Former RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin agrees with the bank to reduce his controversial pension by £200,000 a ...

+ Public money 'wasted on railways' + Spending more money on roads not rail would get much better value for the taxpayer, motoring body the RAC ...

+ Minister quits over home tax move + Treasury minister Kitty Ussher quits the government after questions are raised about her tax ...

+ Leaders clash on public spending + Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron clash over public spending amid rowdy Commons ...

+ Governor seeks more bank powers + The governor of the Bank of England calls for major regulatory reform, but the chancellor says he has no plans for big ...

+ Fewer ministers needed - MPs + An influential group of MPs says there are too many ministers in government and they are too focused on media opinion. ...

+ Public pick community punishments + The results of a public vote to choose which community punishments offenders should face have been ...

+ Lengthy Tamil protest ends + A 73-day protest involving thousands of people demonstrating over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka ...

+ PMQs: The full story + All the key points, analysis and reaction from Gordon Brown's grilling and tributes to Speaker ...

+ Tories to step up Iraq pressure + The Tories are to step up the pressure on the government to hold the Iraq war inquiry in public by staging a debate on the ...

+ Ministers 'do not value privacy' + The government does not appreciate the threat posed to privacy by electronic surveillance, peers ...

+ UK jobless total at 12-year high + UK unemployment rose to 2.261 million in the three months to April, the highest since November 1996. ...

+ Devine could trigger by-election + Labour MP Jim Devine says he may force a by-election after his deselection by the party over his expenses ...

+ Spending growth to slow - Darling + The UK will have to "live within our means" with a slowdown in public spending growth, Chancellor Alistair Darling ...

+ Ex-PM Thatcher 'making progress' + Baroness Thatcher is "clearly making progress" after breaking her arm but will remain in hospital for now, says son ...

+ Tories warn firms off ID scheme + The Conservatives are warning companies bidding to supply ID cards not to sign any long-term contracts for the ...

+ MP 'claimed for own firm's flat' + Conservative MP Brian Binley defends his actions amid reports he claimed more than £50,000 in expenses to rent a flat from his ...

+ MP defends advice expenses claims + Eric Joyce MP defends himself after it emerged he has paid a "very close friend" thousands of pounds for policy ...

+ Brian Taylor's political blog + Brian Taylor's political ...

+ NI MPs give back expenses money + The DUP's Peter Robinson pays back £755 claimed for a brief case and computer case as 182 MPs from all parties repay ...

+ Mark Devenport's political blog + Dummy puff/betsan ...

+ Minister won't seek re-election + Local Government Minister Dr Brian Gibbons announces plans to stand down as an assembly member at the next ...

+ Betsan Powys' political blog + Dummy puff/betsan ...

+ In full: Brown's new cabinet + Here is the full reshuffled cabinet announced by Prime Minister Gordon ...