From the BBC:

Mr Conway was reprimanded by Commons authorities for paying his student son nearly £40,000 to be a researcher.

Scotland Yard said a “lack of systems” for accounting for MPs’ expenses meant it was ruling out an investigation…

The Metropolitan Police has said it could not investigate the affair because Westminster did not have a system to account for MPs’ expenses properly…

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said: “The public have the right to expect that their money is being properly accounted for.

“The Speaker’s review of expenses must provide the basis for fundamental changes to the

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A special election court ruled earlier today that Eshaq Khan and his supporters carried out “corrupt and illegal practices” to secure his election in Slough. A by-election will now be held, and Eshaq Khan has been expelled from the Conservative Party:

He and his electoral team were found to have created hundreds of false names in the weeks running up to the 3 May election and entered them on the electoral register for the ward, the court heard.

They then made applications for postal votes for these “ghost voters” and used the ballots to vote for Khan.

It was only when Labour party

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Should the Liberal Democrats back nationalisation of the railways? Does Vince’s wife think he’s beautiful? How should binge drinking be tackled? Who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats?

They are just a sample of the rather eclectic mix of questions for Vince Cable in today’s Question and Answer session printed in The Independent. It’s safe to say some of his answers aren’t exactly boring… and he deploys to lethal effect the ability to count to six. Read the full piece here.

David Prescott, son of John, has failed to be selected as the Labour candidate to succeed the former Deputy Prime Minister in Hull East. (BBC)

Matthew Taylor (the Liberal Democrat MP, not the Labour think tanker), who was adopted, has talked to The Times about discovering his biological mother.