Contents

Cover

About the Book

About the Authors

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Prologue

1 Freedom of Information?

2 Basra

3 The Leak

4 The ‘Missing Disk’

5 The Cold Call

6 The Deal

7 The Plan

8 The Bunker

9 Decision Time

10 ‘Go Day’

11 Backlash

12 The Tories Get their Turn

13 Meltdown

14 The Moat

15 Payback

16 The Phantom Mortgage

17 The Resignations Begin

18 The Justice Minister, his House and ‘Osama bin Laden’

19 A Very British Revolution

20 The Duck House Discovery

21 Keeping It in the Family

22 A New Front

23 Brown on the Brink

24 A Sea of Black Ink

25 Charges

Epilogue

Appendix: The Expenses Files

The Claims MPs were told to repay