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June 5, 2009 2:12 pm
What started as a furore over MPs’ expense claims has snowballed into an all-engulfing political crisis. Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, was hoping to save his job with a government reshuffle after James Purnell, work and pensions secretary, quit the cabinet and urged him to stand aside to give Labour a chance to win the next general election, to be held by 2010. The ruling party, already hammered in local elections, was braced for a drubbing in voting for the European Parliament.
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