Hung out to dry

Quite a fall then for the lobby three.

As Jon Craig says 12 months ago

Geoff Hoon had high hopes of going off to Brussels and becoming a commissioner.

Now he along with Patricia Hewitt and Stephen Byers find themselves out of the Labour party.

According to Craig

I suspect that after Nick Brown watched Dispatches he spoke to Collins and they agreed to tell Gordon Brown that they had to act.

The last thing that Labour needed going into an election was a sleaze story and one can just see the Tories rubbing their hands with glee over this.