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This is a list of British political scandals, real or alleged:
- South Sea Bubble (1720)
- Marconi scandal of insider trading by Rufus Isaacs and others (1912)
- Zinoviev Letter (1924)
- Jimmy Thomas budget leak (1936)
- Hugh Dalton budget leak (1947)
- John Belcher corruptly influenced - led to Lynskey Tribunal
- Crichel Down and the resignation of Thomas Dugdale (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Soviet agent John Vassall working for Minister Thomas Galbraith (1962)
- Profumo Affair (1963)
- Reginald Maudling and corrupt Architect John Poulson (1972)
- Earl Jellicoe and Lord Lambton sex scandal (1973)
- John Stonehouse's faked suicide (1974)
- Jeremy Thorpe affair with Norman Scott and shooting of Scott's dog (1976) and later acquittal on charges of conspiracy to murder (1979)
- Cecil Parkinson and Flora Keays (1983)
- Al Yamamah contract alleged to have been obtained by bribery (1985)
- Westland affair (1986)
- Jeffrey Archer and the prostitute allegations (1986), and his subsequent conviction for perjury (2001)
- Dame Shirley Porter's "homes-for-votes" gerrymandering scandal ((1987-1989)
- BSE (1989)
- Nicholas Ridley comparing the EU to the Third Reich (1990)
- Arms-to-Iraq and the closely connected Iraqi Supergun affair (1990)
- David Mellor resignation after press disclose his affair with Antonia de Sancha (1992)
- Michael Mates gift of watch to Asil Nadir (1993)
- 'Back to Basics', a succession of sex scandals in John Major's government which led to the resignation of Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness, among others (1994)
- Cash-for-questions affair involving Neil Hamilton, Tim Smith and Mohamed Al-Fayed (1994)
- Jonathan Aitken and the hotel bill allegations, and subsequent conviction for perjury (1995)
- Double resignation rocks government. Peter Mandelson, Trade and Industry Secretary, resigns after failing to disclose £373,000 loan from Paymaster General, Geoffrey Robinson. (1998)
- Keith Vaz, Peter Mandelson and the Hinduja brothers. Mandelson forced to resign again due to misleading statements. (2001)
- In 2002 Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This was criticised more harshly than may otherwise have been the case as Major had frequently pushed his Back To Basics agenda, which was a form of moral absolutism.
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