If ever there was a bad time for any MP, let alone a Tory, to get hauled over the coals by the Parliamentary Standards Committee then surely this is it…
Tory MP Conway faces suspension
A complaint that Tory MP Derek Conway wrongly paid his son MP allowances has been upheld by MPs on the Commons Standards [...]

Peter Hain’s resignation to ‘clear his name’ is, in some respects, one of the least surprising news stories of the week, there having been an air of inevitability surrounding the likely denouement of this story since it was revealed that sums of money involved (£103,000) were several orders of magnitude above any prior known case [...]