From the BBC website:
But Jackie Pearcey, a Lib Dem councillor from Manchester, accused some MPs of losing track of the interests of the party.
"Us ordinary party members are seeing a group of very ambitious people fighting each other down in Westminster," she told BBC News 24.
Mark Oaten:
"Colleagues should now give Charles time to prove himself, to show he has got on top of his problems," he told BBC News 24.
Mr Oaten added: "At the moment we are just damaging ourselves."