How do we restore the reputation of Parliament? Andy McSmith and Michael Savage asked 10 respected figures at Westminster for their solutions to the crisis engulfing politics

We have an historic opportunity to remake our political system

Dogs barked, cats miaowed, and Roy Hattersley opposed electoral reform. But not any longer. Everyone except David Cameron seems to be in favour of proportional representation all of a sudden. Alan Johnson has opened the floodgates of irrational responses to the MPs' expenses furore

A Tory government would restore "real people power" to address public rage fuelled by the MPs' expenses scandal, Opposition leader David Cameron pledged today.

David Cameron today pledges a "massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power" from state to citizens in a drive to rebuild public trust in politics.

A second cabinet minister has urged Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on electoral reform to regain the political initiative.

An eruption of Poujadist anger will not improve our system of government

Policy blitz and a reshuffle will be PM's answer to bad election results

Michael Martin is a warm and kindly man. I suspect he had little idea how crudely the moth-eaten expenses system was being milked by the MPs who had voted to make him their Speaker. But that he continued to see himself as their champion rather than as the champion of the people who elected them is undoubted. It means that he cannot be the person charged with the reform of expenses, let alone with the reform of Parliament itself.

Labour's fear is that this time it will be the BNP that makes a sudden breakthrough

Labour fears the far right will win its first European seats in June, Harriet Harman tells Andrew Grice

The arrival of black and Asian families from London has made Swanley fertile territory for the BNP, says Jerome Taylor

Take action to stop far-right party winning seats in European elections, Brown is urged

Conservative challenger from National party tipped to win election