David Laws's resignation: a national own goal

So unelected media can hold the elected government to ransom whenever it chooses, by skewering a minister on a technicality.

If they can do it to Laws, they'll find a way of doing it to every other Cabinet minister when it suits them.

Newspapermen are out to sell newspapers. The government has a country to run -- our country, in fact, and it's in all our interests that we have the best people available to do it.

David Laws was manifestly not corrupt.

We as a nation have shot ourselves in the foot here, by delivering up the head of David Laws on a platter to the Daily Telegraph.

The newspaper may take a profit.  But the nation will pay the price for losing the services of a talented minister.