David Laws has quit after only 3 weeks as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
I find it hilarious that David Cameron should say this – of an MP in a different party to his own (Laws is LibDem):
“The last 24 hours must have been extraordinarily difficult and painful for you.
“You are a good and honourable man. I am sure that, throughout, you have been motivated by wanting to protect your privacy rather than anything else.
“In your short time at the Treasury, you have made a real difference, setting the government on the right path to tackle the deficit which poses such a risk to our economy.”
This is nonsense. He wasn’t as understanding during the previous expenses row and his contradictory attitude was one of his election manifesto items – the self-styled sheriff was going to clean up this dirty town!
Cameron would not have had this attitude if the Tories weren’t in coalition with the LibDems.
The ridiculous planned cuts to “reduce the deficit” have already got a lot of people up in arms. It has to be one of the worst starts to a new government ever.