Defiant Speaker refuses to resign over expenses row (Independent)
Story date: 2008-02-25 04:04:15
Added on: 2008-02-25 16:13:17
A defiant Michael Martin, the Speaker of the Commons, insisted yesterday that he would not step aside from overseeing reforms to MPs' expenses despite a row over his own claims.
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