A member of the Department of Education and Children has resigned over cuts to nursery provision in the Isle of Man.
Dudley Butt MLC made a heartfelt speech to Tynwald during Tuesday's sitting decrying plans to end publicly funded nurseries.
It emerged later Mr Butt had handed his resignation to Education Minister Peter Karran earlier in the day.
Mr Butt told Manx Radio he felt he had no choice:
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