NASHUA, N.H. I’ve long suspected that if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses. Forget door-knocking. In reality, it’s more trainspotting. Reporters hang out at candidate appearances — and restaurants — talking primarily among themselves and comparing notes on which canned events they attended. (Did you see Santorum in Salem? No, I went to Romney in Hudson so I could catch Newt in Nashua.) Read full article > >

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Journalists’ campaign trail secrets revealed

A committee of MPs is demanding changes to the way their expenses are handled saying the current independently run system is “damaging” parliament .

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MPs attack ‘untenable’ expenses

Jailed peer Lord Hanningfield tells the BBC he has been through “absolute hell” for two years over his expenses.

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Jailed peer’s ‘been through hell’

Jailed peer Lord Hanningfield tells the BBC he has been through “absolute hell” for two years over his expenses.

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Jailed peer’s ‘been through hell’

Former Essex Council leader and former Tory peer Lord Hanningfield is found guilty of six counts of false accounting relating to his expenses.

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Peer convicted of expenses fraud

Police are to investigate the expenses claims of former Lib Dem cabinet minister David Laws, a Labour MP says.

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Police ‘to probe Laws expenses’

Lib Dem MP David Laws will be suspended from the Commons for seven days after being found guilty of “a series of serious breaches of the rules” over his expenses.

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Laws suspended over MP expenses

MPs’ claims for second homes fell by nearly £4m in the year of the expenses scandal, new figures released by Parliament show.

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MPs’ claims slumped after scandal

Jurors trying former MP Jim Devine over his expenses are told he was “unlikely” to have risked becoming a criminal over claims of just £180 a month.

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Ex-MP ‘could have claimed more’

A Labour MP tells jurors he was worried that a former colleague Jim Devine, on trial over his expenses, was “going into a dark place”.

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‘Dark place’ fear for expenses MP

Two Labour MPs deny advising a colleague on trial over his expenses that he could make claims from one allowance to cover staffing costs.

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MPs deny Devine expenses advice

MPs attack the way the expenses watchdog has published details about their expenses claims, one minister calling it “seriously misleading”.

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MPs attack expenses disclosure

Behind the scenes at the expenses watchdog

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Expenses battle

Former Labour MP Jim Devine’s trial over his expenses claims is due to start at Southwark Crown Court.

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Ex-MP faces trial over expenses

A relative of a peer standing trial over his expenses tells the court he was shocked to learn his address had been used on claim forms.

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Nephew shocked at peer’s expenses