DAVID CAMERON insisted Labour had “nothing new” to offer last night as he delivered a scathing assessment of his opponents’ manifesto.

FOUR British politicians pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of false accounting over their expenses, an issue that has tarnished the image of major parties ahead of this year’s election.

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown was accused of being out of touch on the expenses scandal yesterday after Labour withdrew the party whip from the three MPs being prosecuted.

The three Labour MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses claims were been suspended from the party today.

David Cameron will pledge today to change the law to prevent the “disgusting sight” of MPs using parliamentary privilege in a bid to avoid prosecution for expenses abuses.

PROSECUTORS charged three MPs and one peer yesterday with false accounting over alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses system.

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer in the UK said today they would defend themselves against charges of false accounting arising from their claims for parliamentary expenses.

BRITISH home secretary Jacqui Smith became the first cabinet casualty of the MPs’ expenses scandal, after it was revealed she told Prime Minister Gordon Brown within days of revelations about her finances that she wanted to quit the Government in a reshuffle.

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.