Episodes
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. Guest: Will Lewis ----- To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio To get in touch:[email protected] Other Telegraph podcasts: Audio Football Club: Thom Gibbs, Mina Rzouki and our finest sports reporters unpack the week in football, every Monday. https://www.playpodca.st/afc   Chopper’s Brexit Podcast: The inside line on...
Published 06/12/19
Published 06/12/19
The Telegraph’s reporting on expenses involved a secretly copied disc, a million pages of sensitive personal information, and the most powerful institution in the land. What would the paper have to do to avoid getting stopped by the law? It fell to one man to figure that out. -------------- Guest: Arthur Wynn Davies To claim our subscriber offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio To get in touch: [email protected]
Published 06/05/19
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 of them.     Guest: Norman Baker   -------- To claim our subscription offer: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio   For more Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses To get in touch: [email protected]
Published 05/29/19
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 them to it.   Guest: Heather Brooke   ---   For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses   Email us: [email protected]
Published 05/22/19
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.   But there weren’t many normal days in May 2009.   ————   For our full Expenses coverage: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses   To see Matt’s latest cartoons: @MattCartoonist   Email us: [email protected]
Published 05/15/19
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, covering every single MP in the country. Working in secret, they began to pick through the files. This is the story of what happened next. Guests: Robert Winnett and Christopher Hope. For more: www.telegraph.co.uk/expenses
Published 05/07/19
In the spring of 2009, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the UK was sliding into recession, Poker Face by Lady Gaga was on the radio everywhere, and unbeknownst to anyone else, a small group of journalists at the Telegraph had taken delivery of a hard drive.   On this drive were the expense claims for every single MP in the UK -- PDFs of over a million forms, utility bills, and receipts. Lots of receipts.   And lurking within these receipts was the biggest parliamentary scandal that had hit...
Published 04/04/19