And so the expenses scandal rumbles on. This morning’s Telegraph lead with home-flipping allegations against Andrew Dismore, a member of the Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges. And now it’s emerged that the Met have referred the cases of four parliamentarians to the Crown Prosecution Service. All of which makes Brown’s decision not to mention expenses in the Queen’s Speech seem even more unwise.

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