Expenses

By The Telegraph

What's Expenses about?

A hard drive, a room full of reporters -- and the biggest parliamentary scandal in a generation. How MPs' expenses came to light. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Expenses episodes:

06.12.2019
6 - The Editor
For ten years, the man who led the Telegraph in 2009 has kept quiet about what happened during the scandal. But some stories are worth returning to. Guest: Will Lewis To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio To get...
06.05.2019
5 - The Lawyer
The Telegraph’s reporting on expenses involved a secretly copied disc, a million pages of sensitive personal information, and the most powerful institution in the land.What would the paper have to do to avoid getting stopped by the law?It fell to...
05.29.2019
4 - The Politician
What was it like to be working in Parliament when the expenses scandal broke? It’s a question that most MPs are reluctant to answer. But not all of them. Guest: Norman Baker --------To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio For more Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expensesTo get in...
05.22.2019
3 - The Campaigner
When New Labour came to power in 1997, they made a promise that they’d eventually come to regret.And one journalist did more than anyone else to hold them to it. Guest: Heather Brooke --- For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses Email us: [email protected] Privacy...
05.15.2019
2 - The Cartoonist
On a normal day Matt Pritchett, our front page cartoonist, gets into the office at around 8am and starts to figure out where the news is heading. But there weren’t many normal days in May 2009. ———— For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses To...
05.07.2019
1 - The Reporters
In the spring of 2009, a small group of reporters at the Telegraph were given access to hundreds of thousands of pages of parliamentary expense claims, covering every single MP in the country. Working in secret, they began to pick...

What's Expenses about?

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Expenses episodes:

6 - The Editor

5 - The Lawyer

4 - The Politician

3 - The Campaigner

2 - The Cartoonist

1 - The Reporters