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Clegg: 'Speaker did decent thing'

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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said Speaker Michael Martin did the "decent thing" in resigning.

Mr Clegg also welcomed an agreement made with party leaders to radically change rules on MPs expenses.

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