Book review: an extraordinary scandal: the Westminster expenses crisis and why it still matters by Emma Crewe and Andrew Walker

In An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why it Still Matters, Emma Crewe and Andrew Walker offer a new account of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal in the UK, exploring changing ideas of representation, privacy and transparency, transformations to the role of MPs and the impact of weak legislative governance. The lesson of this excellent book is the ongoing collective failure of parliamentarians to grasp that they have responsibilities not just to their constituents and to the nation, but also to the institution that they are part of, writes Ben Yong.