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