One MP pays a tax fine, one borrows money from a relation and one is accused of bullying staff. More ‘corruption and sleaze’? Romans might have seen it as a matter of basic values.
In 443 bc, Rome established the prestigious office of censor, to be held by two men, usually ex-consuls.
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