The Met has supplied a formal apology to both parliamentary speakers now. Good to see everything operating at normal in the capital’s police force…
Police detectives told lawyers acting for Peter Mandelson that Lord Forsyth – the Speaker of the House of Lords – and Lindsay Hoyle dobbed him in by reporting his intentions to fly to the British Virgin Islands. Yesterday they apologised to Hoyle, today they say sorry to Forsyth…
Mandelson’s lawyers are also outraged. They will try to make hay of the bog-up…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”