The Prime Ministers Spokesman said Huhne “denies the allegations” eight times at this morning’s briefing. He also said that the Prime Minister has full confidence in the Secretary of State. Set the stopwatch.

Fast forward to Cameron’s NHS speech moments later, well more importantly the questions afterwards, and Cameron explicitly did not take the  opportunity to express his full confidence in Huhne. Lucy Manning of ITV asked “Do you have full confidence in Chris Huhne?” Dave merely said “he denies the allegations”. Read “if he’s lying, he’s out”

Tim Farron was optimistically spinning on the Daily Politics that Huhne wouldn’t have to go even if he was under police investigation, Guido isn’t so sure. Detective Superintendent Tom Wills of Essex Police is investigating whether to investigate “This is the work that my team and I will be carrying out this week.” It really shouldn’t take that long to interview two people and pull up a couple of forms…