Aide-Mémoire

Rebuffed in his attempt to shift onto Lord Leveson the responsibility for establishing the blamelessness of Jeremy C Hunt, Daveybloke has applied for advance access to all the written evidence submitted to the inquiry. Next week is likely to be a particularly delicate one, with two of Daveybloke's very special chums, Rebekah Brooks and Honest Andy Coulson, scheduled to testify. The written evidence includes the hundred and sixty-four pages of emails sent by Hunt's casual acquaintance Fred Michel to James the Memory Hole, and it is just possible that Hunt would be glad of the chance to do a bit of redacting. With his usual courtesy to people who aren't accepted figures of Bullingdon fun, Daveybloke has made the application as the government rather than as Downing Street, so that all relevant departments will have a chance to determine in advance what they can and cannot recall.