Sentences with phrase «tainted by the expenses»

Disgraced, depressed and, in some cases, imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk to Simon Hattenstone about trying to rebuild their lives

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.

Beckett was seen as tainted by the expenses row after public fury at her gardening claims, but five potential candidates - including Bercow, who repaid more than # 1,400 he said he had wrongly claimed on office costs - have returned money.

Not exact matches

Liberal Democrat candidate Qurban Hussain attacks the two main parties, which he says are both «tainted» by expenses.

This is a party, after all, that opposed the Iraq war, took some creditable stands on the banks, and was less tainted by the worst excesses of the parliamentary expenses saga.