The lesson to be drawn by the people of Scotland from This Tory Crisis and from previous Labour ones is that the union in which we now are is redundant and damaging.

I apologise for making a party point, but I believe that we are all being dragged into what is essentially a Tory Crisis in the hope of giving respectability to a proposition that is utterly without merit.

Last week, a spokesman for Guy's hospital inadvertently provided the best summation of the Tory Crisis.

in Another Tory Crisis.

This is not just a Tory Crisis, therefore.