Quentin Davies gives Brown a special welcoming gift

Tory MP Quentin Davies has created a shock by crossing the floor and defecting to Labour. The news has come at the perfect time for Brown as he take over as PM tomorrow.

Rubbing salt into the wounds Davies issued a caustic resignation letter to the Tory leader David Cameron, accusing him of replacing the party's "sense of mission" with a "PR-agenda".

In the letter he wrote: "Under your leadership the Conservative party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything. It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.... It is fair to say that you have so far made a shambles of your foreign policy, and that would be a great handicap to you - and, more seriously, to the country - if you ever came to power."

Unsurprisingly Nigel Evans, Tory MP for Ribble Valley: "Quentin Davies has done a great disservice to himself and to his constituents. He should resign immediately and fight a by election."

With evidence of a bounce back in the polls and a coup such as this, Gordon Brown will surely have an extra spring in his step as he takes over the reins of power tomorrow!