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