Editorial

The resignation of David Laws on the day the nation is fixated to the goings on of the Eurovision is an early but significant blow to the idealism of this "coalition" government, one of its pillars has been found by the Daily Telegraph to have claimed for a second home, in a time of "deep and painful cuts" in the public sector.

David Cameron will today have to protect himself from the internal snipers who are all focusing on "Dave" and wishing this "coalition" fails.

There is no love lost between the respective parties back bench troops and this resignation will only fuel the hostilities. The question is how will the markets react to this on Tuesday, when the Chief Secretary of the Treasury has not even made it to the first month of the coalition government.

Sources within the Conservative party contacted by The London Daily News have said that there is real anger at the way in which the  party's leadership is ignoring the wishes of its supporters and experienced backbenchers.

We will have to see how David Cameron deals with his first crisis, and this is a crisis.  The cracks have already emerged amongst the two parties backbenchers and it will only be time before the main protagonists start bickering in public.