Tommy McAvoy, MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West has announced that he intends to stand down as MP after over 20 years.
This has come as a surprise to local party activists, who had seen McAvoy campaigned just a few days ago. He was giving every sign of hoping to continue as MP and Party Whip.
Meanwhile, and completely off-topic, here is Jim Devine, soon-to-be ex-MP for Livingstone insisting that his false expenses claims were done on the advice of an unidentified Party Whip.
