Guido was in Bournemouth yesterday speaking at a fringe meetingon the topic of MPs’ expenses organised by Liberal Vision.  Greg Dyke was on form, his political promiscuity means the former Labour-luvvie  is now a LibDem and he is helping the Tories formulate their media policy.

At the end of the meeting Guido asked the members of the audience to put up their hand if they thought the former LibDem chief-exec Lord Rennard should keep the £42,000 he claimed for overnight subsistence despite living in Vauxhall, just over the Thames from parliament.  Not a single hand went up, not even the manicured hand of the Telegraph-beatified ‘Saint’ Lynne Featherstone MP who was in the room.

Even the co-panellist LibDem Lord Teverson, who was sitting next to Guido, said he was abstaining…