Sleaze, old corruption and parliamentary reform: An historical perspective on the current crisis

Political Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-48

  Seaward, Paul ^a  

^a History of Parliament Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corruption; Expenses; House of commons; Members of parliament

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949529882     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02073.x     Document Type: Article

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2. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. R. Latham and W. Mathews (11 vols), London, Bell & Hyman, 1970-1983, pp. ix, 140-1.
3. The Resolution of 22 June 1858, which is the basis of the current advocacy rule, was prompted by concern about the way rich Indians had paid lawyers who were MPs to raise their cases in the House of Commons when they had been disappointed in the courts (see HC Deb 22 June 1858 vol. 151 cc.176-209).
4. Quoted in Julian Hoppit, A Land of Liberty? England, 1689-1727, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 405.
5. Gulliver's Travels, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1967, p. 241.
6. Quoted in Philip Harling, The Waning of Old Corruption: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1776-1849, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 59.
7. Harling, Waning of Old Corruption, p. 123.
8. London Corresponding Society, Report of the Sub-committee of Westminster appointed 12 April 1780, p. 13.
9. On Representative Government, in Utilitarianism, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government, ed. H. B. Acton, London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1972, p. 311.
10. H. Hawken, Payment of Members of Parliament, London, 1892.
11. HC Deb 10 August 1911, c. 1383. vol. 29,
12. G. R. Searle, Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 108-9.
13. Frank Meyer, 1914, quoted in Searle, Corruption in British Politics, p. 109.
14. Memories, p. 256, quoted in Michael Rush, The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 122.
15. HC Deb 11 July 1979, c. 1383. vol. 970,
16. Searle, Corruption in British Politics, pp. 41-2.
17. Searle, Corruption in British Politics, p. 1.