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Expenses

A hard drive, a room full of reporters -- and the biggest parliamentary scandal in a generation. How MPs' expenses came to light.

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1 - The Reporters

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 o... Read more

7 May 2019

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2 - The Cartoonist

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 w... Read more

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