http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hPXTDcIYp1iWpIxn9tSx_tZglsVg"Dissolving Parliament could be the only way to rescue MPs' reputation amid growing public fury over the Westminster expenses gravy train, Gordon Brown has been warned.
With yet more senior politicians embroiled in the latest tranche of claims revelations, former Commons deputy Speaker Lord Naseby said an early general election was needed to save the "foundations of democracy".
The call came as the House authorities mounted a desperate rear-guard action to shore up trust in the allowances regime.
An independent audit unit is to be created - at a cost of £600,000 a year - to monitor claims.
Meanwhile, some "clean" MPs started venting their anger at colleagues for bringing the scandal upon them.
Lib Dem frontbencher Lynne Featherstone said she was "ashamed of my brethren", insisting they were getting "due punishment".
"You can or should be able, whatever your circumstances, be able to judge right from wrong," she told Sky News.
Labour backbencher Kate Hoey laid into millionaire tourism minister Barbara Follett for spending £25,000 on security patrols outside her Soho home.
"I would need to have someone really convince me that an MP can claim that amount of money for personal security, when I know that in my constituency I have women who walk home late at night who would love to have somebody paying for them to have personal security," she told BBC Radio 5 Live."
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So a lack of trust inside and outside of Parliament, lack in trust in politics and politicians. Sometimes in order to protect the integrity of the institution you have to make sacrifice. Also Brown made an unexpected visit to Buckingham Palace last week (for 'counsel?)
Could he go again this week?
