Guardian Daily: Byers faces sleaze watchdog inquiry

Former cabinet minister Stephen Byers has referred himself to the parliamentary sleaze watchdog over lobbying claims. Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee outlines what the affair says about the Tony Blair era. Meanwhile Sir Ian Kennedy , the man whose job it is to draw up proposals for reforming the system of MPs' expenses, has described how members will be punished if they don't comply with his new rules. Polly Curtis , our Whitehall correspondent, has the details. Olympic organisers have fired the starting gun on the scramble for tickets to the London 2012 Games. Sports news correspondent Owen Gibson explains how ticket allocation will work. In America, healthcare reformers are celebrating a historic victory. We hear the reaction of Jacki Schechner from Healthcare For America Now. Washington correspondent Ewen MacAskill reports what the vote means for the Obama administration. The former CBI director general and ex-minister Lord Digby Jones discusses the BA dispute, which he says raises fundamental issues about the right of managers to run a business.