Tony Blair's leadership crisis has taken a dramatic turn for the worse this afternoon, with one junior minister and six parliamentary private secretaries resigning - bringing the total to seven resignations in a single day.
The junior members have quit over his refusal to name a date for resignation as Labour leader. Opponents within his party say claims the PM will go by May are 'not good enough'.
Mr Blair remained defiant today, branding ex-junior minister Tom Watson 'disloyal, discourteous and wrong' for signing a letter urging him to go.
Just minutes after Mr Watson announced his decision to quit, Mr Blair said he was going to sack him anyway.
According to the BBC, Mr Watson and the six parliamentary secretaries were among 17 normally loyal Labour MPs who signed a letter calling on Mr Blair to quit.
The six parliamentary secretaries were: Khalid Mahmood, Wayne David, Ian Lucas, Mark Tami, Chris Mole, David Wright.
They resigned saying it was no longer in the country's best interests for Mr Blair to remain in office. Mr Watson has already been replaced by junior transport minister Derek Twigg.
The whole country waits with baited breath as Blair, who surrendered to the IRA, handed over British sovereignty to the EU, and who served as an adviser to the Soviet front group CND prepares to leave power a broken and disgraced man.
In the words of the great Parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."
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