Marsden to quit as MP
News Article 29 July 2004
Floor-crossing MP Paul Marsden has announced he is to leave parliament at the next general election.
MPs parking perk in peril
Press Review 28 July 2004
BAA, Britain's biggest airport operator, could be set to strip MPs of their free parking passes after protests by shareholders.
Welsh MPs in spat over royal 'snub'
News Article 26 July 2004
Two Welsh MPs have traded blows over Rhodri Morgan's alleged failure to turn up on time for a recent meeting with the Queen.
Clinton book tops MPs' holiday reading
Press Review 26 July 2004
Bill Clinton's autobiography has emerged as the most popular book amongst MPs going on holiday this summer.
Parliamentarians delayed Israeli complaint
Press Review 22 June 2004
It has emerged that the two MPs and a peer who complained of being shot at by Israeli soldiers waited until they had returned to Britain and issued a press release before they raised the case officially.
Lib Dem MP to urge Commons cull
News Article 20 June 2004
A Liberal Democrat MP will this week urge his colleagues to reduce the size of the House of Commons.
MPs go large in Lisbon
Press Review 14 June 2004
A Commons football team have been criticised for accepting sponsorship from fast food chain McDonalds for a trip to play a match in Portugal.
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Iraq 11 - MPs 0
Press Review 21 May 2004
Iraq's national football squad thrashed a team of British parliamentarians 11 - 0 yesterday.
MP comes out fighting for St George's Day
Press Review 23 April 2004
Labour MP Tom Watson has put down an early day motion calling for the government to make St George's Day a "national day of celebration".
MPs to top up their pensions
Press Review 5 April 2004
MPs have volunteered to pay a further £1,100 a year towards their pensions.
MPs in breach of children's law
Press Review 29 March 2004
The controversy over solicitor general Harriet Harman's involvement in a children's law case has exposed the fact that hundreds of MPs have unwittingly committed an offence in intervening in care and custody cases on behalf of constituents.
Reseach reveals MPs' popularity
News Article 24 March 2004
New research has shown that only a quarter of the public trust politicians.
Betsygate to spark stricter rules on research funds
Press Review 19 March 2004
The row over payments to Iain Duncan Smith's wife, Betsy, may lead to new rules on funds paid to opposition MPs.
Griffiths rails against Commons culture
Press Review 1 March 2004
A Labour MP who was deselected last week has accused many of her male colleagues of supporting a culture of sexual infidelity and blind drunkenness at Westminster.
