British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith plans to resign her government post, media reported yesterday, a new casualty of the expenses scandal sweeping through parliament.
Smith’s reputation suffered after a leaked copy of her parliamentary expenses claim in March showed she had charged taxpayers for the hire of two pornographic movies by her husband.
“It is just speculation. We are not commenting any further,” a spokesman for the prime minister’s office said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a rout in European and local elections tomorrow and is expected to reshuffle his team in the next few days ahead of a general election due within a year.
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