It’s amazing what a former MP will do for money, especially one whose career ended in tatters. Jacqui Smith is taking part in a Radio 5 documentary about the nail in a her political coffin – porn.

“In the programme she will talk about her own attitudes to the industry. She also speaks to film-makers, actors, feminists and politicians, as well as men and women who consume pornography.”

Well it shouldn’t be too hard to find a consumer, she’ll just have to call downstairs to the sofa. At time of the scandal, word was put about to sympathetic ears that Smith’s researcher and husband Richard was covering for their son who was actually the late night viewer, but that has today been dismissed:

“Let me just say, I knew he had used porn. Did he use it very much? No. Having said that, there were two movies on the same week”

Smith apparently also claims “some people say to me, “Oh well, at least you didn’t have to leave because of a great policy ****-up”. Yes, because she was such a successful Home Secretary…