Michael Dugher MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, responding to Lord Oakeshott’s resignation from the Liberal Democrats, said:

“The Lib Dems broke their promises, have been propping up the Tories and have been punished for it in the polls. Now they are imploding and falling apart.

"At the very moment when people want solutions to the country’s problems, Nick Clegg is at the head of a self-indulgent rabble of a party - turning in on themselves, rather than standing up for hardworking families.

"It doesn’t matter who resigns - the truth is you can’t trust a word any Lib Dem says.”