Just pay up, top minister tells MPs
Updated on 15 October 2009
A senior Cabinet minister has urged MPs to pay back expenses demanded from them by independent auditor Sir Thomas Legg.
Amid increasingly open dissent on the Labour backbenches over the former civil servant's demands, Home Secretary Alan Johnson insisted that the Legg review was "part of the solution, not the problem".
Mr Johnson did not rule out the possibility of MPs going to jail as a result of the expenses scandal, saying only: "The police are investigating at least three of our colleagues and we will have to see how it goes."
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