Rush job

摘要

Gordon Brown had seemed content to await the verdict of an independent committee. Even after it emerged, last month, that the home secretary had charged the taxpayer for her husband's pay-per-view pornographic films, Mr Brown merely asked the Committee on Standards in Public Life to accelerate its review of mps' allowances. Then, on April 21st, he suddenly announced measures of his own, which he wants Parliament to ratify almost immediately.