After specultion earlier that he was about to be sacked, defence sources just confirmed that Hancock resigned this morning from the Defence Select Committee. Jumped before pushed…

UPDATE: Technically a committee member has to be replaced by the House on a House order but Guido understands Hancock has got the ball rolling to get this going…

UPDATE II:

http://twitter.com/#!/BBCPolitics/status/126621513733521408

UPDATE III: In all fairness the blogger who got the first whiff of this story was Geoffrey Brooking.