More questions for MPs over expenses

Labour MP Ben Chapman is the latest to announce he will be standing down at the next election after over-claiming £15,000 on his mortgage.

One Conservative MP accused his critics of being jealous of his palatial home. Another tried to claim for a floating duck house among £30,000 of gardening expenses.

But behind these undoubtedly compelling headlines, there were more serious problems for Gordon Brown as he was forced to come to the defence of two more cabinet members, Geoff Hoon and James Purnell, over their financial arrangements.

And question marks still hang over Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.

Interview: David Miliband

Jon Snow spoke to the foreign secretary David Miliband about the expenses issue - and whether the integrity of our democratic institutions had been undermined by his cabinet collages?

 

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