UK Commons speaker steps down over expense scandal (AP)

News article: UK Commons speaker steps down over expense scandal (AP)

News Manager May 19th, 2009

AP - The powerful speaker of the British House of Commons resigned Tuesday, bowing to a backlash over excessive expense claims by lawmakers and becoming the first speaker in three centuries to be forced out.

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By Del Boy on May 19th, 2009

Yes. He had to be well and truly shoved out. He had striven to block the exposure of the misuse of Member of Parliament's expenses; he tried to legally prevent that happening by using his privileged position as speaker. That has now become an extreme scandal.

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