BREAKING NEWS

CLARE SHORT TO QUIT RUMOUR

12-09-2006

It's been reported this afternoon that controversial Birmingham Ladywood MP Clare Short is to quit at the next election.

The report is carried in the respected left wing website the Daily (http://thedaily.wordpress.com).

It's claimed the Short wants to step down so that she can advocate a hung parliament with the Lib Dems holding the balance of power - allowing proportional representation to replace the first past the post system.

If she advocates voting against Labour candidates she could be expelled from the party.

Short claims that the Blair government in which served as a minister for six years will be viewed as an “historic wasted opportunity”.