Jacqui Smith will leave the Cabinet on Monday, it was reported today.

Citing "impeccable sources", Sky News said the Home Secretary will be a casualty of the expenses row.

According to the BBC she will defend her skinny 2,716 majority in Redditch at the next election.

Smith is now reportedly expected to feature in a cull of senior ministers next week, following the expected Labour massacre in the European and local elections on Thursday. The Chancellor Alistair Darling is also seen as vulnerable following an embarrassing apology over "mistakes" in his expenses claims.

Smith's tenure as the first woman Home Secretary has been torrid. She's been almost continually dogged by controversy and cockups, including 42 days detention, ID cards, the reclassification of cannabis, the Interception Modernisation Programme, prisoner data loss, etc, etc, ad nauseum... ®

Related stories

• Opinion Is Gordon Brown safe to work with vulnerable people? (11 August 2009)
• Privacy watchdog bashes UK.gov net snoop plan (29 July 2009)
• Johnson presses for haste on foreigner IDs (6 July 2009)
• Updated Office admin sacked for Blears abuse (6 July 2009)
• Comment MPs turn to Black Blob to preserve their dignity (20 June 2009)
• MPs launch probe of massive net snooping project (17 June 2009)
• Law lord lashes out at ID cards (16 June 2009)
• Johnson handed Home Office brief (5 June 2009)
• Comment New Labour: Chainsaws out, maybe Contactpoint, too (4 June 2009)
• Blears is latest to scurry away from Brown's Cabinet (3 June 2009)
• ISPs frosty on Jacqui's comms surveillance plan (2 June 2009)
• Jacqui whacks shock jock crock (1 June 2009)
• Wacky Jacqui defends Michael Savage ban (19 May 2009)
• Banned US shock-jock demands Clinton intervention (15 May 2009)
• Home Sec: No more funds to e-crime unit (14 May 2009)
• Jacqui's secret plan to 'Master the Internet' (3 May 2009)
• Jacqui drops central snooping database (27 April 2009)