A complaint about former British Labour Party minister and Rotherham MP Denis MacShane has been referred to the Metropolitan Police, the UK parliament's standards watchdog said today.

BRITAIN’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday suspended ex-minister Elliot Morley from the Parliamentary Labour Party and an aide to Tory leader David Cameron quit his post, as the Westminster expenses scandal claimed its first scalps.

Gordon Brown was today accused of “dithering” over the latest Labour funding controversy as embattled Cabinet minister Peter Hain clung to his political career.

Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett tonight admitted he had been wrong to give a rail warrant intended for MPs’ spouses to his married lover Kimberly Quinn.