Taking a tough line on expenses?
Updated on 22 May 2009
David Cameron angrily slaps down the backbenchers daring to fight back over expenses. Victoria Macdonald reports.
A Conservative MP, Nadine Dorries, claimed today she and her colleagues were victims of a McCarthy-like "witch-hunt" in the furore over expenses.
But her plea for sympathy certainly did not work with her boss David Cameron who immediately slapped her down.
Joining the alleged rogues gallery today are Labour MP Ian Gibson, who let his daughter live rent-free at his taxpayer-funded flat; and Conservative Anne Main who is accused of being similarly generous towards her daughter with a property subsidised by the taxpayer.
With political family problems of a slightly different kind is Andrew MacKay.
The Tory MP quit his job working for David Cameron after it emerged he and his wife, MP Julie Kirkbride, were both claiming a second homes allowance. He is facing his constituents tonight in Bracknell in Surrey.
Sarah Smith reports.
Interview: Ann Widdecombe
Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviews the Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe who has announced she will stand for Speaker on an interim basis. He asked her whether she could explain to the viewers why she thought she would do a good job in the chair of the House of Commons.
