repeatedly denied he ever thought of replacing alistair darling as counselor. this made for grim reading of labor. results show that any general election, this would put the lowest at 23%, boost into third place by the liberal democrats. our first report tonight is by david cameron. >> this was a 24 hours bracketed by two government resignations, each in their way damaging for the prime minister. james purnell stood down last night and called on gordon brown to do the same. carolines let resigned this evening angry at how she and other women have been treated. gordon brown is tonight still a damaged but aberrant determined prime minister. >> i'm not going to lockley. i am going to keep doing the job that i set out to do and that's my message. to keep on with the job. >> his chances of doing that were hit who knows how hard my james purnell resignation just as the polls were closing last night. >> what exactly has happened? there is. it will be seen, dear gordon, i quit. be any impact at james purnell's explosive resignation letter was to set this place into sie

he said there is no question as ever removing alistair darling when number 10 -- alistair darling was not wendy considered in the reshuffle. you're saying that does not matter? >> i do not know any of these points. it is my job to make sure that whales -- wales' voices heard. we have not communicated much in the last few months as a whole of the parliamentary expense scandals and gulf british politics. where putting the right and tackling the big economic agenda. as we sought the g 20 summit, he was brilliantly leading the world in taking the world forward. >> what does it say about the prime minister -- >> i think what it says -- >> tonight, we have the resignation of caroline flint. i spoke with her extensively tonight. she said there was no doubt that women in the cabinet -- they were being used as window dressing. is that how you have seen it? >> one of the most eminent women in british politics has just replaced caroline in a very important job sitting in the cabinet. she expressed loyalty to the prime minister last night, -- >> he did not recognize caroline flint -- she was sayi