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DOMINIC LAWSON: The busting open of a cash-for-votes scam at the highest levels of the European Parliament is a triumph for the Belgian intelligence services

From Jeremy Thorpe to Keith Vaz, The Week takes a look at MPs who have faced police scrutiny

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has taken the moral high ground over the Greensill lobbying scandal in heated exchanges in the Commons. When Boris Johnson hit back that Lord Mandelson, the former Labour trade secretary who is an adviser to Starmer, runs a lobbying company, Sir Keir said with a triumphant flourish: ‘I have not heard a defence that ridiculous since my last days in Crown Court. It is called the shoplifters’ defence. “Everyone else is nicking stuff, so why can’t I?”’ Sta...