Yesterday it was Chris Huhne who was staring down the barrel, but for six Tory toffs there has been a very different target in the crosshairs. Step forward Sir Gerald Howarth, Graham Brady, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Sir Edward Garnier, Simon Reevell and Bill Wiggin. The six have all declared they were treated to a weekend of blasting birds out of the sky at 2,500 acre Catton Hall estate just before Christmas that cost over £5,000 courtesy of the blood sports lobby.

Catton Hall, a country estate that has been in the same hands since the fifteenth century, offers guests a 350 bird bag and use of its luxury dining room. How generous of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation to foot the bill. These six clearly didn’t get the Tory detoxification memo…