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With all media interest focused on the BlairBrown soap opera, the traumas facing Sir Menzies Campbell and the Liberal Democrats have passed almost unnoticed.
Thankfully we can always rely on Simon Hughes, the reliably maverick Lib Dem MP, to stir things up. He helpfully told journalists this week that it was 'unfair' for colleagues to criticise their new leader after such a short space of time, and that Ming should instead be 'judged after the party conference' in the autumn. Now, in Westminsterspeak this means Ming has been an unmitigated disaster, and if he doesn't pull his socks up soon he will be facing a leadership challenge.
The recent leadership election...