The prospect of politicians being prosecuted over the scandal of Parliamentary expenses moved a significant step closer yesterday when police files on four MPs and peers were passed to the Crown ...

TODAY sees the long-awaited publication of all MPs’ expenses on Parliament’s website – but don’t expect too many revelations. TODAY sees the long-awaited publication of all MPs’ expenses on Parliament ...

A security firm responsible for guarding some of Britain’s most sensitive Government documents, including the two Iraq War dossiers, has been axed following the damaging leak of the MPs’ expenses ...

Scotland Yard detectives have passed files to prosecutors on MPs and peers facing criminal charges of fraud over their expenses claims. Clockwise from top left: Lord Clarke of Hampstead, Baroness ...

Secret Tory files about the private lives of MPs are to be opened up for an inquiry into widespread child abuse at the heart of the establishment. David Cameron has ordered the Conservative Party’s ...

Edward Snowden's disclosures of the scale of mass surveillance are "an embarrassing indictment" of the weak nature of the oversight and legal accountability of Britain's security and intelligence ...

A former undercover police officer has told BBC News that Scotland Yard kept intelligence files on MPs during the 1990s. Ex-Special Branch officer Peter Francis says he saw files on 10 Labour MPs ...