Oh no, another cleft stick not of the Lib Dems’ making. This time it’s Labour’s call for a vote on the conduct of Jeremy Hunt.
Other political parties don’t like it much when you interfere in their internal machinations. Labour knows what this feels like – remember when Nick Clegg suggested any post-election deal with Labour probably couldn’t feature Gordon Brown? So, when David Cameron announced (with perhaps the sort of breakneck decision-making on-the-hoof that ends up in the odd U-turn) that he wouldn’t be referring Jeremy Hunt to the independent adviser on the ministerial code, it’s understandable that the Lib Dems put out a statement saying it was “a matter for the prime minister alone to decide how to handle issues of discipline concerning Conservative ministers”.
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