Nick Clegg is not allowing the Speaker to get away with packing the committee looking into the Green affair, the LibDems will boycott the committee. The Speaker plans to establish a seven strong committee with four Labour placemen in the majority. A fix in other words.

Another LibDem, Chris Huhne, gave one of the most spirited speeches in defence of Green’s whistleblowing and against the government’s heavy handedness.

The unprincipled partisanship of the Labour hierarchy over this has driven the LibDems to side with the Tories again. If the next election is competitive Labour may regret having driven the LibDems towards the Tories so many times on so many issues…