This would be resisted by many MPs who insist they must know their staff are loyal to them above all – not to an outside employer. Unveiling a special ‘Speaker’s Conference’ on the issue, Sir Lindsay said: ‘I take recent allegations of bullying and sexual impropriety very seriously, which is why it is time we reviewed our working practices, particularly whether it is right that individual MPs are the employers of their staff.’ Instead, the workers would be employed either by the Commons directly or by the parliamentary expenses authority IPSA. Sources said that a ‘dossier of shame’ against MPs had been compiled by a House of Commons staffer
