In the space of a few hours yesterday, Labour lost two Holyrood
frontbenchers, Alastair Campbell was expelled for voting Lib Dem and the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a formal probe into anti-Semitism in the party.
The Labour leader is likely to face a challenge for his position after losing 20 members from his top team and a raft of over two dozen junior
frontbenchers over the last 48 hours.
Few will forget the moment in April 2011 when he shouted at the Labour
frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
The
frontbencher, who stood against Ed Miliband for the party leadership, claimed many voters had "decided the coalition is a failure as a government", but "what they aren't yet convinced is that we have the answers".
During a visit to Coventry, the Labour
frontbencher said: "Boris Johnson, the most senior elected Conservative in the country, described that as piffle.
Which Lib Dem
frontbencher overturned on appeal a demand to repay almost pounds 18,000 in MP expenses claims?
COMMONS Speaker Michael Martin was last night looking increasingly exposed amid deepening dismay among MPs over his failure to stop the police raid on theWestminster office of Tory
frontbencher Damian Green.
The pressure on Michael Martin over a police raid of a Tory
frontbencher's Commons office has only increased with his admission that police had no warrant for the search.