Lib Dem attacks on Tory sleaze ahead of the vote will alarm Conservative MPs - and turn up the heat on the PM at the end of a week when 100 of his backbenchers rebelled against his Plan B COVID curbs.
Clearly the Lib Dems played the sleaze card during the campaign and it worked. Ms Morgan talked also in her speech about the"questionable donations" to refurbish the PM's Downing Street flat and parties in Number 10 during lockdown.
So the mutiny crosses the generations: grandees - the"men in grey suits", to use the old political cliche - and new MPs, including several"Red Wallers" who won seats which had been Labour for generations. After Tuesday's Commons rebellion some backbench malcontents were already speculating about a leadership challenge. Now there will be more plotting against the PM.
Here at the count, after their initial nervousness, the Liberal Democrats were so confident of winning that an understandably extremely cheerful Christine Jardine MP claimed victory live on Sky News more than two hours before the declaration.
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