Corbyn hit by further resignations

In the past week, David Cameron has had to resign after losing the referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, and yet is still heading into Prime Minister’s Questions in a stronger position than his opposite number, who has not resigned. Jeremy Corbyn is now a Labour leader whose MPs have overwhelmingly stated that they have no confidence in him. His Shadow Education Secretary Pat Glass, who was only appointed at the start of this week, has just resigned saying that the ‘situation is untenable’. Emma Lewell-Buck has also stood down as a shadow minister, saying she is ‘heartbroken at state of party and recent events’.

That Labour is so unstable when the Tories are in turmoil too may be consolation for Conservative MPs. But it means that the Commons is currently entirely dysfunctional, with the only sizeable party that actually has a permanent and authoritative leadership being the SNP, hence their call to become the official opposition in Westminster.