Votes at the end of Back - Bench Business Committee debates, where MPs themselves choose the subject for debate for the first time for 50 years (only conceded by
the government after the expenses scandal), are simply ignored by the government.
Not exact matches
Mr Cameron and his ministers insist the process of lifting the «cloak of secrecy» around
government is essential to win back voter trust
after the
expenses scandal and a breakdown of public belief in the political system.
«The
Government made a big play
after the
expenses scandal of bringing back integrity to politics and this does the exact opposite,» Mr Mann told BBC Radio 4's Today.
Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours
after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour
government had acted to clean up the parliamentary
expenses scandal.