Speaker Martin to step down in June

It has been quite on the speaker front recently.

Michael Martin appears to have ridden out the storm over the Damien Green affair.

Sam Coates though claims that the hot gossip in Westminster is that Mr Martin may be stepping down in the summer.His logic being that

Labour will be keen to select a new Speaker before the end of the Parliament, while they still have a certain majority. That's the only way they could hope to stop a Tory speaker taking over, and there have even been suggestions recently of a tie-up with the Lib Dems perhaps to select Sir Ming (though I'd be sceptical given it's a secret ballot to select Martin's successor, making deals harder.)