"It does leave a few wounds"

More political defections are predicted - with dispute over the timing but not the impact. Defections are big business at the moment. Both of UKIPs new Members of Parliament, Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell who you heard there, walked away from the Conservatives to hang their hat with Nigel Farage's trilby.Lord McNally was a Labour man until he defected to what was the SDP and later the Liberal Democrats. He told BH about the emotional impact of defecting.