The UK's First Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws has just resigned a little over two weeks after he was appointed to the post. His resignation comes in response to revelations in this morning's Daily Telegraph newspaper. It was revealed that between 2004 and 2009 Mr Laws, one of the coalition's LibDem five, had been claiming £950 per month of MP's expenses to rent a room in a house he shared with his gay lover. The fact that he has a gay lover is also news.
Rather then being an attempt to force Mr Laws from his post the purpose of this expose was to further tarnish the reputation of him and his party as he performed the role of poster boy for savage government spending cuts. The entire purpose of having a LibDem in that role is of course to protect the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
By resigning straight away Mr Laws has prevented this from happening. Sadly he will be replaced by Danny Alexander, another LibDem, who up until about an hour ago held the post of Scottish Secretary.
Edited to Add: Danny Alexander not Douglas Alexander who is someone else entirely.
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