With well over a thousand votes in, the verdict is clear, the only obstacles are legal. There is of course the name that everyone knows about and she is threatening to sue if she is named. Somehow Guido suspects that She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is bluffing and will not risk perjuring herself and relying on Prescott to do the same in the face of the widespread knowledge of the affair around Westminster. This is the one that the papers randomly mention for no reason whatsoever and that a few websites have specifically named as his former mistress.

Then there is a much younger woman that the predatory Prescott is said to have given his unwanted attentions to, and she has now been sent safely away on a slowboat to China.