When the bad news buries you

It must have been one of those Sundays where your average government whip read the papers, popped out into the garden, screamed a bit and then came back in for lunch. Just the Sunday Telegraph alone would have done it.

First there was the former minister who has been telling a leftie scandal sheet how “Cameron is the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone”. What didn't help was his use of expletives for appropriate emphasis.

Then comes further despair over how the damned Liam Fox business won’t go away simply because Adam Werrity is facing further questions over a missing £60,000 or thereabouts. The money was given to him to cover the debts of the former defence secretary's controversial charity.

And to cap it all is the news that some aide to Oliver Letwin has got himself arrested for fraud by false representation. The aide, a former MP, got himself put in pokey after allegedly claiming that he was acting on behalf of the head of government policy on Home Office issues.

The only available solace is that Labour finally got themselves dragged into the passport fiasco. Then you wonder if anyone noticed.