UK parliamentary speaker steps down over scandal

2009/05/19 21:06:42 @Reuters: International News

LONDON (Reuters) - The speaker of Britain's lower house said on Tuesday he would step down after lawmakers from all the main parties demanded he resign over an expenses scandal that has tarnished the reputation of parliament. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qoP5bvBtvZg:nkko4weG9a0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qoP5bvBtvZg:nkko4weG9a0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=qoP5bvBtvZg:nkko4weG9a0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qoP5bvBtvZg:nkko4weG9a0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=qoP5bvBtvZg:nkko4weG9a0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/qoP5bvBtvZg" height="1" width="1"/
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