Regrets

It looks like it is going to be a week for Lib Dem politicians to line up to express remorse for utterances they wish they hadn’t made.

Whatever views the twittering Peter Black may hold about the Welsh ombudsman being on a mission to "sanitise debate" it is evident that the self-opinionated AM needs to clean up his own act. Today, the uncomfortable collar belongs to Vince Cable whose bumptious assertion – as elicited by the Telegraph – that he could “bring down the government” over coalition agreement arguments is said to have "embarrassed" the Business Secretary.

Cable’s is the latest in a series of ambushes conducted by the Telegraph against the hand that feeds them political firmament - the most recent victim being the former government advisor Lord Young.

The paper is promising further similar unguarded insights from Lib Dem ministers. Black’s gaffe was all his own work.