[Abernathy]

As always, you never really know. The test of this sort of stuff is plausibility. And it's very plausible backbenchers wouldn't fancy being on the hook for it.

And I can give you one name- Lucy Powell, because she said so. And she got elected Deputy Leader as a voice for backbenchers.

Well, yes. Probably so, especially since Powell is no longer in the cabinet, so not bound by the principle of collective responsibility. But other ministers are, so TWA’s confident assertion can only be based on Chinese whispers.

[kreuzberger]

Please be specific - how many and who? Or was that just media fluff?

The BBC was, this morning, desperate to shine their light of journalistic rigour on outrage which - er - didn't really exist, save a few barely audible grumbles.

At least is distracted them from reading out bits of the daily-fucking-mail, claiming that Rach is sleeping with Kim Jong-un (or something).

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Please be specific - how many and who? Or was that just media fluff?

I don't have a specific list of names Malcolm. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that some were wary about breaking a key pledge.

If we don't know who they are we don't know their reliability or whatever agenda they may be pursuing, so this report is worthless at best. Why is this so hard to understand?