An historic clear-out?

I wrote yesterday that things may be about to get much worse for Brown on the publication of MPs’ expense receipts.  To be fair, signs are that Parliament as a whole will take a kicking; although – by virtue of them having more MPs, and as they form the incumbent government – you still sense that Labour will feel the most pain.  Today’s Mail has a neat sidebox outlining some of the main nasties that will crop up – helicopter rides and holiday homes – and the concern among some MPs that affairs will be revealed by hotel receipts.  A “senior” Lib Dem frontbencher, worried for his future, is even said to have asked Nick Clegg for assurances that no one would be sacked when the expenses are published.  Clegg refused to give those assurances.

The question now is how many MPs will lose their jobs over the whole mess.  The Mail story says that “dozens” may have to quit.