Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman QC MP, survived with aplomb a fitful Tory offensive led by her opposite number, Teresa May MP during the weekly Business Statement. The Speaker, Michael Martin MP helpfully reminded both women not to stray off the Business Statement by going into details of the 'dodgy donations' affair. Efforts to hype up the affair have gone into overdrive elsewhere on the blogosphere with Guido claiming, for example:
Exclusive : Police to Seize Labour Party Software Evidence
Close reading shows he is merely inciting the police to do their job, and do it quickly before records are deleted. Time to get out the salt cellar. Evidence of anyone other than Peter Watt being party to the unlawful donations arrangement is proving so elusive that I have come to the view that the Prime Minister is right to accept in good faith Harriet Harman and Jon Mendelsohn's accounts of what they knew, when. However, that does not detract from my concern that if any evidence is produced that a minister of the crown did know about Watt's 'dodgy donation' arrangement, then it won't just be the individual concerned whose job will be on the line. It could provoke a constitutional crisis, that might only be resolved by the resignation of the whole government.