AV second reading will pass tonight

But there will be trouble ahead for the coalition

There is a distinct air of indifference among MPs slowly dripping back today from their summer breaks. Indifference, that is, towards the second reading vote on the Alternative Vote referendum which takes at 10pm tonight.

One Labour MP who is planning to vote against, says that this because the subject has not been in the news. Compare it, he says, to the coverage given to the William Hague, Andy Coulson and Tony Blair stories in recent...