Expenses: Speaker goes, MPs warned
Updated on 19 May 2009
Michael Martin becomes the first Speaker to be forced out of the post for 300 years, saying that he would "maintain unity" in the House of Commons.
After presiding over an unprecedented crisis at Westminster over politicians' expenses, Martin will stand down on 21 June.
In other dramatic developments, Gordon Brown said Labour MPs who have broken the rules on expenses would not be allowed to stand at the next election.
The Metropolitan Police said there would not be an investigation into the leak of MPs' expenses claims, published in the Daily Telegraph.
Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, reflected on the Speaker's departure, as did Labour's Martin Salter, the Conservative Richard Shepherd and the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable.
