Ms May's opposite number on the Labour benches, Yvette Cooper, has shone of late landing blows on the home secretary without demanding a resignation that, on current evidence, is not warranted.
His party's leadership had refrained from demanding a resignation for days after Weiner admitted sending lewd photos and messages and at least one X-rated picture to a handful of women around the country over the past three years and then lying about it.
Politics demands a swift resignation; justice demands a little patience.
Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, is not planning to demand a retrial despite the sudden resignation of the leading judge in his two-year-old war crimes trial, his legal adviser, Dragoljub Ognjanovic, said.
Late Wednesday, according to the Israeli news media, he said, "There are those who believe that the launching of any investigation demands a resignation, but I don't adhere to this notion and I will not step down".
He said infidelity is a "serious" breach, but added that a demand for a resignation would have to take into account all allegations and circumstances.
Gordon Brown was fighting to save his premiership today after Hazel Blears emboldened Labour MPs demanding a leadership election with a resignation statement timed to inflict maximum damage on the prime minister.
Barrister Abdur Razaak, the chief defence counsel at the tribunal, has demanded a retrial following the resignation.
The daily sees this as exploiting "a moment of grave national danger to demand the resignation of a rival: To play politics with national security is not responsible conduct for a leader".
They would have us believe that to protest in public against the layoffs of a million workers, the high cost of living, or to demand the resignation of a cabinet, are actions possible only outside our borders.
The emails show the doubts in the Blair camp over how to fend off the demands for a resignation, as well as their anger at what they saw as a coup.
