Yet even a broken clock is right twice a day and thus it is with Mr Wardle, who in a remarkably unnoticed piece in 'The Thunderer' on Friday, mentioned that he, when immigration minister, had been approached at a luncheon by the dodgy Mr Hinduja on the matter of a passport and had told him, rather swiftly, that it was not up to scrubs like Hinduja to approach ministers like him. Nevertheless Mr Wardle has performed a service. That is the case, which Messrs Mandelson and Vaz have to face and that case is wholly unanswerable. Well of course they may. Well the Opinion Poll in The Mail on Sunday today has the answer.
Lets just canter round that one.
It's a tale shortly told. A Mr Smith certainly did take the money, a Mr Hamilton might have done, but might not have done. A Mr Tredinnick it seems would have done and a Mr Riddick repented within 10 hours. Both the latter two, let it be said, had been in the vernacular 'fitted up' by the Sunday Times in a way which in no way approximates to real life. And that was cash for questions.