The email has caused another political headache for Gordon Brown

When it came to thinking up headlines to describe events at Westminster yesterday, newspaper offices up and down the land were presented with a perfect resource: the weather.

As the snow fell across much of the country, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt were causing a political sensation with their call for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown’s leadership of the party. The Independent dubbed it ‘The Winter Revolt’ on its front page, while the Guardian ran with ‘Snowstorm mutiny melts’.

Here’s two pieces from those papers that caught my eye as I sheltered myself from the cold:

The emails arrived at 10.24, and a day of political drama and intrigue began – The Independent

Geoff Hoon’s unsent letter and a secret plot to oust Gordon Brown – The Guardian