It is not only Downing Street apparachtiks, politicians and fundraisers who have been helping police with their inquiries. Yates of the Yard’s officers have been helped in their inquiries by the Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow.

Comments he made on the record previously have turned out to be of special interest to the police in their current investigation.

Makes a change for him to be questioned rather than the inquisitor. Guido understands that he is not the only journailst to have been questioned by the investigators.