http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18432466
Quote:
It may now seem as if all the sound and fury has changed nothing. After all, David Cameron has made clear that he's backing his culture secretary; the prime minister's independent adviser on the ministerial code says he sees no reason to investigate; and the Commons has now voted to back that judgement.
Much, though, has changed. Mr Hunt may survive but his long-term future looks far from certain. Tory MPs have been given yet another reason to resent their Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues. They will now look for a chance to retaliate. Doubts have been raised about the point of Sir Alex Allan - an adviser who has chosen neither to investigate Mr Hunt nor to advise Mr Cameron.
The prime minister insists that who is in his cabinet is properly - and must remain - a matter for his judgement alone. Ultimately it is his judgement which was on trial today and his judgement which his deputy Nick Clegg refused to back.
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Good for Clegg, bad for Hunt, worse for Cameron, who, of course, is being "examined" today .....
