Tony Dodgins looks at how the current rows over MPs' expenses brings up a few similarities with the ongoing financial situation that the budget cap has brought to Formula 1

I just heard Harriet Harman on the radio trying to defend Alistair Darling. Seemed to be struggling a little, her questioner pressing the point that, of all people, the chancellor's finances needed to be whiter than white.

The point was made that as the man looking after the nation's money, he didn't need to be so preoccupied with his own. So he should go. One rule for all.

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