Caroline Spelman was refused a super-injunction concerning a Daily Star Sunday story about her son Jonny on Saturday. She did manage to get a standard injunction to stop the paper running it, though that is being fought in the High Court tomorrow.
Guido has to wonder whether any other rising England Rugby star would have managed to stop the story appearing in print given that the judge specifically cited the seventeen year old’s mother’s job in the order. Mr Justice Lindblom said “there is a political dimension which cannot be ignored”.
And ignored it will not be – there are currently 185 mentions of the injunction on Google News…
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