MP highlights suicide risk over expenses

"What the Telegraph are executing is almost a McCarthy-style witch-hunt. The way they are deploying their tactics and the way they are treating MPs has reached a point now at almost two weeks where I think people are seriously beginning to crack.

"I have never, ever been in an atmosphere or an environment like it, where everyone walks around with terror in their eyes. People are genuinely concerned."

"UNBEARABLE DISCLOSURE"

Dorries, whose own use of expenses to buy household goods was exposed by the Telegraph, joins a number of politicians who have attacked the disclosures rather than apologising.

Conservative leader David Cameron, who is expected to win the next election, said she should be thinking about the electorate not other MPs.

"Of course MPs are concerned about what is happening, but frankly MPs ought to be concerned about what their constituents think, they ought to be worrying about the people who put us where we are," he told the BBC.

The Telegraph on Friday named one of the men who leaked details of MPs' expenses to the paper as former SAS officer John Wick.

Wick, who is a Conservative supporter, told the paper he had "no regrets" over his actions.

"This was a scandal across the political spectrum with some Conservative MPs' behaviour as reprehensible as their Labour counterparts," he said.