London - British MPs voted to suspend a Labour colleague from the House of Commons for one week without pay yesterday for failing a declare a business interest.
Mr Robert Wareing, MP for Liverpool West in the northwest, apologised to the Commons - but went on to make a bitter personal attack on Labour's chief whip, Mr Nick Brown, who is charged with enforcing discipline on his party's MPs.
Mr Wareing alleged there had been an attempt "to create a scandal out of an oversight", adding that he had never had an opportunity to put his side of the case to the Commons committee on standards which recommended his suspension. - (AFP)