The One True Standard Way To Resign: Deny everything, hang on by fingernails to current post, and wait for the Prime Minister to utter the keyphrase "full and unconditional backing". Wait a fortnight more for the baying in the tabloids to become deafening, and *then* decide to spend more time with directorships spouse and children.

That's been the tradition since the days of Maggie Hatchett. Why change it? Has someone mislaid the pearl-handled revolver that used to get mentioned on such occasions?

As an aside, the baying in the Meeja has fully lived down to my expectations of them, and then some. No new depth unplumbed, an' all that.

PS: Extra points, backwoodsman, for proving that it's not just me that remembers "thirteen years of Tory misrule".