Michael Deacon enjoys the breathless TV news coverage of Chris Huhne's resignation.

The biggest danger for the Liberal Democrats from this coming trial is that it turns the party into the butt of everybody’s jokes. Having gone into government and lost much of their original support by taking tough decisions, they have consoled themselves with the hope that they have now established themselves as a serious political party.   Their aim at the next election will be to pre...

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): This is rightly difficult territory. I am relieved to hear that Ministers have reconsidered the transitional arrangements, and I am pleased that the Opposition welcome that. In the noise and heat of the debate, important truths are getting lost or ignored. We are not generous enough towards the disabled, and

Labour will not regain power until it "fully understands" why it lost support and "clarifies the kind of future" it wants to see, David Miliband says.

Dan Snow explained how Fred Goodwin was not the first person to fall from grace and how history shows more famous faces have also lost their titles.

I have lost count of the number of opinion pieces written by finance commentators and journalists who complain that the austerity programmes of Europe are doomed to fail, because they cause perpetual economic contraction, resulting in shrinking government revenues, curtailing the ability to pay down debt - which was why the austerity programme was embarked upon in the first place. And this will go...

A profile of the man who lost a knighthood

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party, said in response to news that Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood:

In the past 20 years, 35 people have lost honours, usually after a crime or being censured by a regulatory authority

And so Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood. Here's the Cabinet Office statement (and some of my previous thoughts here): 'It will soon be announced in the London Gazette that the Knighthood conferred upon Fred Goodwin as a Knight Bachelor has been cancelled and annulled. This decision, not normally publicised in advance, was taken on the advice of the Forfeiture Committee, which advised...