Britain | Parliamentary sleaze
Too many smells
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OF ALL the issues that have dragged down the government, few have been more damaging than the charges of sleaze made against some Tory MPs. The publication on March 20th by the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee of a report clearing 15 MPs will do little to put the controversy to rest.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Too many smells”
From the March 22nd 1997 edition
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