Oh, I don’t know. If memory serves me, Messrs Dyke, Davies and Gilligan have now joined a substantial group of people who have stepped down for one reason or another.

The list below may jog a few memories. These reasons for these resignations of politicians range from nakedly political, through health, financial, sex, and legal.

Australia:
1966: Sir Robert Menzies
1997: Senator Cheryl Kernot
2002: Pauline Hanson
England:
1963: John Profumo
1973: Lord Lambton
1972: Sir Nicholas Fairbairn
1986: Michael Heseltine
1990: Margaret Thatcher
1990: Geoffrey Howe
1993: Norman Lamont
1998: Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson
1998: Trade Paymaster General, Geoffrey Robinson
France:
1969: Charles de Gaulle
Russia:
1999: Boris Yeltsin
United States:
1973: Spiro Agnew
1974: Richard M. Nixon
1998: Newt Gingrich

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