Deputy leader of the Commons quits over Trident

Says the Beeb

In a statement after handing his letter in to Number 10 Downing Street, Mr Griffiths, MP for Edinburgh South, said: “I’m resigning with a heavy heart but a clear conscience.

“I intend to make a personal statement in the House of Commons to colleagues and it is only right that they hear the reasons first.”

Dave’s Spart doesn’t believe a word of it: “Would it be too, too cynical to suggest that Griffiths is mindful that his majority over the Lib-Dems in his Edinburgh South is less than 1,000, and that a spot of populism on this issue certainly won’t do his chances of holding onto the seat any harm?“.

A minister taking a principled stand out of crass political calculation? Never!