Resigned Ministers' Personal Statements To The House: From Call Girls To Clapham Common

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Liam Fox will make a traditional personal statement to the Commons on Wednesday following his resignation last Friday and the cabinet secretary's report into allegations he broke the ministerial code.

Sir Gus O' Donnell found Liam Fox put the security of both himself and Ministry of Defence officials at risk by providing details of his diary to his close friend Adam Werritty.

The former defence secretary is not the first disgraced minister to explain his behaviour to the House - and he won't be the last.

See below for a slideshow of other notorious resignations, covering call girls, financial mismanagement, and mysterious incidents on Clapham Common - and what they told MPs about their downfall.

David Mellor

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David Mellor resigned from John Major's government in 1992 as Secretary of State for National Heritage after his affair with the actress Antonia de Sancha emerged. He told the Commons that after a barrage of bad press, he felt he had no other option:

"If a time came when my presence was an embarrassment, that was the time to go. The time to go was yesterday. And to those who think it could have been sooner, I think it is legitimate for the Prime Minister and senior colleagues to take the view that in this day and age - sorry and distressed though I was at the revelations and inevitably how cheap and sordid it might have looked - this wasn't a reason for a Cabinet minister to resign."

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