Any new material uncovered by the Parliamentary standards watchdog in its investigation into Denis MacShane is not covered by Parliamentary privilege, the chairman of the standards committee tells ...

MacShane was a Labour MP for 18 years and served as Europe minister under Tony Blair between 2002 and 2005. Last month, he admitted filing 19 fraudulent invoices between January 2005 and January 2008.

Former Labour minister Denis MacShane is to be suspended from the Commons for 12 months after the Westminster sleaze watchdog found he had wrongly claimed thousands of pounds in expenses.

Denis MacShane's guilty plea for expenses fraud comes more than four years after the original scandal which engulfed Westminster. MacShane is the second former minister, and one of a number of MPs ...

Mr MacShane is perhaps too harsh about the failure of his own party leader, Tony Blair, to promote the European cause, and he quotes too often from his experience as Mr Blair’s Europe minister ...

MacShane joins a list of politicians prosecuted as a result of the expenses scandal. They include fellow former Labour minister Elliot Morley, as well as MPs Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Eric ...

MacShane was very far from alone among MPs in entering such an arrangement, of course. Nor was he involved in one of the cosy deals which the system allows MPs to make by renting their homes to ...

There will be no excuse that we weren't warned. Denis MacShane is Labour MP for Rotherham and a former No 2 at the FCO. His book 'Globalising Hatred: the new Antisemitism' is published by Phoenix ...

MacShane joins a list of politicians prosecuted as a result of the expenses scandal. They include fellow former Labour minister Elliot Morley, as well as MPs Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Eric ...

For British MP Denis MacShane, there is no point in praising the German economic model. He says the French obsession with the "Merkozy" couple can create errors of judgement.

MacShane, who served as Europe minister under Tony Blair, resigned as MP for Rotherham in South Yorkshire last November, before the punishment could be imposed.

Former MP Denis MacShane has been jailed for six months for expenses fraud after admitting submitting 19 fake receipts amounting to £12,900. He is the fifth MP to get a prison sentence after 2009 ...