Ms Smith was speaking as a panellist on the BBC's Question Time, during which she said that her apology to the Commons earlier this month made it clear she was wrong.
Asked if she had been 'disgraced', she replied: 'Yes I think to a certain extent I have been. I think it's obvious because I have made an apology to parliament that I was wrong.
'That's why I made the apology.'
The former home secretary was told to apologise by the standards commissioner after an investigation into her husband's use of allowances to watch pornographic videos and her designation of a London home belonging to her sister as her primary residence.
Commenting on the incident and whether she should be given a peerage, she said: 'I don't think people who have been disgraced should go to the House of Lords.'
Yesterday another former minister, Tony McNulty, was made to apologise to the House of Commons over his expenses claims and ordered to pay back over £13,000.
Asked if she had been 'disgraced', she replied: 'Yes I think to a certain extent I have been. I think it's obvious because I have made an apology to parliament that I was wrong.
'That's why I made the apology.'
The former home secretary was told to apologise by the standards commissioner after an investigation into her husband's use of allowances to watch pornographic videos and her designation of a London home belonging to her sister as her primary residence.
Commenting on the incident and whether she should be given a peerage, she said: 'I don't think people who have been disgraced should go to the House of Lords.'
Yesterday another former minister, Tony McNulty, was made to apologise to the House of Commons over his expenses claims and ordered to pay back over £13,000.
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