Were they prepared to see any light shone on MPs expenses?

If MPs expenses are to be transparent then so should rail accounts.

And after recent events in the financial world and MPs expenses, it does not seem to have any other face left anymore.

But what does all this have to do with MP expenses one might well ask....

This caused controversy due to the on-going debate regarding MP expenses.

And after the MP expenses expose has proved we are ruled by a bunch of crooks!

Moats, as anyone who has scrutinised MPs expenses will know, are expensive to clean out.

Tomlinson was the leading barrister in the campaign to force the public release of information relating to MPs expenses.

In 2009 the Houses of Parliament started publishing MP expenses.

What should have happened is that MP expenses should have been totally abolished.