Sentences with phrase «row over the expense»

Maria Miller handed in her resignation today, saying the row over her expenses had become «an enormous distraction».

Culture Secretary Maria Miller is facing a potentially decisive day in her battle to keep her job amid a row over her expenses.

They have been rocked by scandal in the past year after a row over their expenses and Iris's affair with a 19 - year - old.

Culture secretary made a series of crucial mistakes in the handling of the row over her expenses claims, leading to her resignation

In a sign that the government acknowledges the damage from another row over expenses, Duncan Smith said he was open to a proposal by Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), to end the right of MPs to sit in judgment on their peers.

Maria Miller resigned as culture secretary on Wednesday morning, saying that the row over her expenses had become «a distraction» to government.

Mrs Miller's decision to quit follows a row over he expenses.

Maria Miller said she hoped she could have kept her ministerial post, but she felt she had to leave because the row over her expenses claim had detracted attention from the «government's achievements».

The row over expenses was «horrible» and put «immense pressure» on Jacqui Smith's family, the former home secretary has admitted.

Then last summer came the rows over expenses.

Not exact matches

Leader of the Commons Andrew Lansley has backed beleaguered Maria Miller, saying that he hoped she would not resign over the row on her expenses and added that «she is a good culture secretary».

The European Commission was today plunged into a row over travel expenses after it emerged that it spent half a million euros on travel for its commissioners in January and February 2016.

The Queen should call a snap election to clean up parliament in the wake of the row over MPs» expenses, it was claimed today.

Duncan Smith said the prime minister would have to consider the row over Miller's expenses.

Iain Duncan Smith has offered tentative support for a proposal to end the right of MPs to regulate their own affairs, warning that the continuing focus on expenses because of the row over Maria Miller's housing claims is «eating away at the credibility of parliament».

A row over Culture Secretary Maria Miller's expenses has overshadowed a speech by the prime minister to the Conservative Party's Spring Forum.

The Glasgow North East MP faces calls to resign as speaker of the House of Commons over the latest parliamentary expenses row.

Voters do not care about Tony Abbott's alleged crises such as the Speaker resigning over the expenses row, according to Lynton Crosby, one of the advisers credited with helping David Cameron win the British election.

We haven't had any post-budget figures from ICM, Populus or MORI yet, but so far it is looking as if, between the rows over MPs expenses, «smeargate» and the budget, we have seen a further shift against Labour and we are back into Tory landslide territory.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has said he would support changes to the way MPs» expenses are overseen, following the row over Culture Secretary Maria Miller's claims.

As the row over Culture Secretary Maria Miller's parliamentary expenses continues, a former aide has added his criticisms.

The former chairman of the committee on Standards in Public life has criticised the House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin over his handling of the MPs» expenses row.

The ironING lady: «Cost - conscious Margaret Thatcher offered to pay for an ironing board for No 10 after becoming PM... She insisted on using her own household items because she feared political enemies might spark an expenses row over refurbishment work... Her prudent attitude is in contrast to MPs» claims for items like moat cleaning that shocked Britain in the expenses scandal in 2009.»

After the energy draining high of recent days Brown will return to humdrum realities, the prospect of a budget later this month with no spare cash to spend, MPs» expenses, the row over what his City Minister Lord Myners knew about Sir Fred Goodwin's pension.