British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to repay more than £12,000 (€12,800) in expenses for cleaning, gardening and maintenance at his second home, his office announced today.

Former British home secretary Jacqui Smith was ordered to apologise to the House of Commons today after a watchdog found that she had “clearly” breached rules on second home expenses.

Tory leader David Cameron today publicly slapped down frontbencher Alan Duncan after he complained that MPs were being forced to live “on rations” in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Details of MPs’ expenses claims were finally published by the House of Commons today – but with much of the detail that led to a public outcry blacked out.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today set out plans for urgent legislative action to clean up Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal.

The UK's Employment Minister Tony McNulty resigned from the British government today in the wake of controversy over his expenses.

Gordon Brown faced a coup today as rebel Labour MPs plotted to oust him from Number 10.

Former minister Elliot Morley became the 13th MP to quit following the expenses revelations as a poll today showed his party with its lowest yet rating.

Tory backbencher Julie Kirkbride succumbed to intense pressure over her expenses today by saying she will stand down as an MP.

The British House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin was leant on by “very senior political sources” to fight efforts to make MPs’ expenses more transparent, it was claimed today.

The MPs’ expenses row in the UK took a new twist today as it was disclosed that some were using the system to claim on both of their homes out of their taxpayer-funded allowances.

British MPs were feeling the full wrath of their constituents as the man who brokered the release of MPs’ expenses claims insisted Parliament would be a better place for the disclosures.

Gordon Brown was forced to defend two more of his Cabinet ministers today as the expenses scandal showed little sign of abating.

The Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin will make a statement to MPs tomorrow amid rapidly mounting calls for him to quit over his handling of the MPs’ expenses crisis.

The politicians' expenses scandal in Britain was poised to claim another victim today after a second Labour MP admitted claiming thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash for a non-existent mortgage.