British political scandals

This is a list of British political scandals, real or alleged.

• Rigging of Chippenham by-election (1742)
• Zinoviev Letter (1924)
• Suez Crisis (1956)
• Profumo Affair (1963)
• John Stonehouse's faked suicide (1974)
• Arms-to-Iraq
• Iraqi Supergun affair
• Cecil Parkinson and Flora Keays (1983)
• allegations of wrongdoing in the Al Yamamah affair (1985)
• Westland Helicopters (1986)
• Jeffrey Archer and the prostitute allegations, and his subsequent conviction for perjury (1987)
• BSE (1989)
• Nicholas Ridley, who compared the EU to Hitler (1990)
• David Mellor resigns after press disclose his affair with Antonia de Sancha (1992)
• Cash-for-questions affair (1994)
• Jonathan Aitken and the hotel bill allegations, and subsequent conviction for perjury (1995)
• the Winchester by-election declared void by the High Court (1997)
• Keith Vaz, Peter Mandelson and the Hinduja brothers (2001)
• Burrell affair