The Minister’s Wife had to help me to bed last night at 7.30pm after I had spent an al fresco afternoon drinking one too many bottles of Merlot with a BBC News reporter. In doing so, she made the never-before-levied allegation that the Minister is a lightweight.

Hurt and wounded, I feel I should point out that it was the BBC News reporter, not me, who missed their stop on the train home.  I made it across and out of London without incident.  That my stop is also the end of the line has nothing to do with it…