A Liberal Democrat MP has quit a frontbench position in a dispute over Ed Davey’s leadership of the party.
The resignation represents a challenge to Davey’s position, although the identity of the MP and the specific frontbench role were not provided in the available material.
Daisy Cooper, the Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader, said that “the vast majority” of the party’s MPs supported Davey. She also said they were “furious at this distraction”.
Her comments indicate that the party’s leadership is seeking to maintain support for Davey while presenting the dispute as a distraction from its wider political work.
No further details were provided about the reasons for the MP’s resignation or what will happen next. The latest position is that one Liberal Democrat MP has left the frontbench, while the deputy leader says most of the parliamentary party remains behind Davey.
