Summary
Extraordinarily, he managed to win re-election even after the news had come out, thereby avoiding prosecution, and when he finally did lose his seat he promptly fled to Boulogne. * The Marconi affair remains one of British history's most bewildering financial scandals, but the rough outline is this. The Poulson connection led to his having to step down from cabinet, and other revelations about his finances later ended the career of a man once thought destined to be prime minister. * The most egregious example of parliamentary corruption, however, concerned not an individual, but the system itself.
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The Fraud Squad
There is a rather self-serving belief that British politics must, by definition, be the cleanest in the world. But members of parliament and financial corruption have been intimate bedfellows since the dawn of democracy. And what would shock previous parliamentar...
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