HENDON MP Andrew Dismore has accused the Daily Telegraph of "stitching him up like a kipper" out of a desire to undermine Parliament after it revealed he “flipped” his second home.

The newspaper reported that Mr Dismore, the longest serving member of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, switched his designated second home from his Notting Hill flat to one in Burnt Oak in 2003 and claimed £65,000 in expenses over eight years.

It also declared he paid £1,000 in expenses to his partner and gave the Hendon Labour party around £36,000 for office services.

Since the revelations came to light this weekend, the MP has been urged to quit the standards committee by Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Speaking to the Times Series, Mr Dismore said: "I don't think I have done anything wrong. I complied with the rules, and when my working pattern changed, my living arrangements changed.

"I could understand the accusations if I had profited from the arrangement at all, but I didn't. In fact, I was worse off afterwards.

"I am really, really angry about it. I resent the way the paper has gone about it. It doesn't like the political system and it's trying to pick us off one by one.

"It has stitched me up like a kipper by trying to imply I have done something underhand. I haven't. My expenses have been open to the public for a long time for anyone to see."

Mr Dismore claimed £34,000 for his Notting Hill flat, which he owns with his long-term partner Linda Julian, between 2001 and 2003.

He then switched his designated second home to his Burnt Oak flat, 11 miles from Westminster, and claimed a further £31,000.

But the MP says he was forced to changed the designation because his workload significantly increased in 2003 - the year, ironically, that he joined the standards committee.

"Your first home is meant to be the one you spend most amount of time in," Mr Dismore said.

"In 2003, I started working much longer hours in Westminster, so I had to change it."

The 55-year-old lawyer said he had forgotten about the money he paid to Miss Julian, his partner of 26 years, because it was such a long time ago.

He claimed the money was for around 12 days of work in 2004, when she was installing a computer system in his office.

He said: "I don't agree with hiring spouses on a full-time basis, but this was a one-off special thing.

"A professional computer expert would have been far more expensive."

Mr Dismore also deflected accusations he used his expenses for political campaigning - which is against the rules. The £36,000 he paid to the Hendon Labour group between 2004 and 2008, he said, was to cover joint phone, postage and stationery costs and not to subsidise the party.

In April he voluntarily changed the system by submitting individual receipts to the fees office, "to create greater transparency".

The MP said: "I was only doing exactly what the fees office advised me to do. You have a shared office, so you share everything and work out the cost afterwards.

"It was all completely within the rules."

Despite his protests, Mr Dismore said he would make no decision on his future on the standards committee until he had consulted the other members, as he did not want to "pollute the system".

"It's only fair that I speak to them first," he said.