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MPs' expenses scandal 'will fall away'

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The final report into MPs' expenses is to be published today and nearly half of all MPs are expected to be ordered to repay some of their expenses.

Sir Thomas Legg's expenses report coincides with the publication of Sir Paul Kennedy's Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority laying out the appeals process.

Deputy political editor James Landale outlines the two reports and Sir Stuart Bell MP, a Labour backbencher, considers how MPs will react to the reviews.

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