Tory MP Derek Conway has defended parliamentary payments to his son, for which he was censured and suspended, saying: "I am not a crook." A Commons standards committee said there was no record of Freddie, a student, doing work at Westminster in return for £40,000 of taxpayers' money.

Maybe the best quote of this whole sordid affair, thus far, goes to Paxo

Derek Conway has resigned to spend more time with his staff