SHAHID Malik is stepping down as justice minister pending the outcome of an inquiry into his expenses claims, Downing Street said today.
Gordon Brown has asked the independent adviser on ministerial interests Sir Philip Mawer to investigate whether Mr Malik's alleged benefit of a subsidised rent breached the ministerial code.
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