Clegg calls on Speaker to quit

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg breaks with hundreds of years of tradition to ask Speaker Michael Martin to resign over the expenses scandal. Tom Clarke reports.

Clegg said Martin should do the "decent thing" and step down as he was a block to parliamentary reform.

Conservative MP Douglas Carswell has also said he plans to table a motion of no confidence in the Speaker on Monday.

However, veteran Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell has said he expects the Speaker to remain in office.

The calls came as the Sunday Telegraph published more details on the expenses scandal, plus the names of MPs who tried to block the publication of the figures.

These included former Conservative chief whip David Maclean and Labour whip Fraser Kemp.

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