Labour Suspends MP Over ‘Assault’

SHROPSHIRE STAR: Labour MP Eric Joyce has been suspended from the party following allegations of an assault in a House of Commons bar on Wednesday night.

Mr Joyce remains MP for Falkirk, but cannot take the Labour whip in the Commons until the completion of a police investigation into the affair.

Scotland Yard confirmed that officers detained a man in his 50s after being called to reports of an incident at a bar within the Palace of Westminster at around 10.50pm. He was taken into custody at a central London police station.

A Labour Party spokesman said: “This is an extremely serious incident. We have suspended Eric Joyce pending the results of the police investigation.” » | Thursday, February 23, 2012

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: MP Eric Joyce arrested and suspended from Labour party over House of Commons brawl: Eric Joyce, the Labour MP for Falkirk, has been arrested by police and suspended from the Labour Party allegedly headbutting another MP in a row over chairs in a bar of the House of Commons. » | Donna Bowater, and Matthew Holehouse | Thursday, February 23, 2012

Labour MP Stephen Timms Stabbed at Constituency Surgery
THE TELEGRAPH: A former Labour minister has been taken to hospital after being stabbed during a constituency surgery.

Stephen Timms, 54, the financial secretary to the treasury in the last government, was attacked while holding a surgery in Beckton, East London.

The incident happened at 3.20pm at the Beckton Globe Library in Kingsford Way where Mr Timms holds a monthly surgery.

A police source said he was taken to hospital by ambulance where his injuries were not life threatening.

A 21-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and is in custody at an East London police station. >>> Duncan Gardham and Nick Collins | Friday, May 14, 2010

MPs Expenses: Labour's Khalid Mahmood Spent £2,575 Staying in 'Riot of Gold, Marble and Silk' Hotel with Girlfriend
Hotel living: Khalid Mahmood spent thousands staying in an upmarket hotel in Kensington rather than in a second home. Photo courtesy of MailOnline
MAIL Online: Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is the latest to be sucked into the expenses scandal.

He stayed at a five-star hotel in London with his girlfriend and charged hundreds of pounds to the taxpayer as his second home allowance.

Mahmood, who is the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, claimed a total of £1,350 for nine nights stay over a four-week period in 2004, when he stayed at The Bentley hotel in Kensington.

He also claimed £1,225 for five nights stay in 2008.

Mahmood used the hotel after separating from partner Nasim Akhtar, with whom he lived in Wembley, though this address was not given on his 2004 claims form.

He checked into the hotel with then girlfriend Elaina Cohen under the fake names Mr Khaled and Eleine Mahmood.

Mahmood denies any wrongdoing. He said of the hotel: 'It was close to the Tube station and it was easy to get to Parliament.' >>> | Saturday, May 23, 2009

Labour MP Shahid Malik Predicts the Total Islamization of the United Kingdom