payback time for Britain's MP's?

Inside Europe | 17.10.2009 | 07:05

Is it payback time for Britain's MP's?

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: British MPs are having to pay back some of their expense claims

In Britain, it seems feathering your own nest at the taxpaper's expense could become a thing of the past for MP's. A long running row about parliamentary expenses has suddenly roared back into life.

Legislators have been asked to hand back some of the money they've claimed from public funds over the past five years. And as Stephen Beard tells us in this Postcard from London, the House of Commons is not happy.