Backbench anger spilled into the open on Tuesday evening when the West Australian MP Dennis Jensen said he no longer supported the prime minister and the Queensland MP Mal Brough said Abbott did not have his unqualified backing, citing problems with policies such as the Medicare co-payment.
Willy Brandt was the last German chancellor to address both houses of the British parliament, delivering a speech in 1970 hailed in a Guardian leader as "an unqualified success".
"Labour will reverse the unqualified teachers policy and put teaching standards first, with our ambition of a world-class teacher in every classroom.
Some schools are reliant on parents to pay the wages of unqualified teachers.
Labour's education spokesman has made the issue of ending the use of unqualified teachers one of his central campaigns and this is the first time he has put a figure on the extent to which they are being used in schools.
More than 400,000 schoolchildren are being taught by unqualified teachers, according to research revealed by the shadow education secretary, Tristam Hunt.
Expect more unqualified teachers, headteacher shortages, a growing attainment gap between children on free school meals and their better-off peers, chaotic curriculum reform, random academisation, the end to AS-levels, and poor children being denied a chance of university.
"Firms will sack experienced, more expensive solicitors, replacing them with those who are unqualified and cheap.
The actions of Chua, a Filipino, have raised fears about unqualified foreign nurses working in British hospitals after it emerged that the investigation found inconsistencies in his medical qualifications.
Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems.
In November 2012, there were 5,300 unqualified teachers in academies, technology colleges and free schools, according to Department for Education figures, but the number has since risen to 7,900.
