Police called to examine corruption allegations in House of Lords

The Metropolitan police will today be urged to investigate whether two Labour peers broke the law after allegedly indicating to undercover reporters that they had used their influence to help to amend legislation in exchange for payments.As the government admitted that the peers were facing "very grim" allegations, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, said he would write to the police today to ask them to investigate whether bribery offences had been committed."If these allegations...