Clegg calls for the Speaker to go

The future of the Speaker dominates the Sunday papers. The Mail on Sunday reports that Michael Martin will announce that he will quit at the next election in an attempt to save his position. The Sunday Times has an interview with a former staff member, admittedly one who left under a cloud, who alleges that Martin personally edited the Green Book on MPs’ expenses and angrily resisted all attempts at reform. But these stories have been trumped by Nick Clegg’s decisive intervention this morning calling for the Speaker to do the “decent thing” and quit

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Clegg’s intervention further weakens Martin. It is hard to see how the Speaker can stay on when he explicitly does not command the support of one party and its leader. It will be fascinating to see if Cameron now turns his implicit calls for Martin to go into explicit ones.