So basically, the ‘story’ here was that the former leader of the Liberal Democrat party, who resigned in January amidst revelations that he was an alcoholic, was actually an alcoholic since before anybody else knew about it. Hot investigative journalism here from graduates of the National Union of Journalists’ “Uncover the Bleeding Obvious” special elite training course. It’s one of the defining characteristics of alcoholism that sufferers drink in secret, so people don’t become aware of the problem until it’s in a more advanced stage.

On Today this morning much of the discussion centred around the work performance of people with serious drink problems, and whether Charles Kennedy’s drink problem affected his performance as party leader.

There’s no doubt that it must have – but if one thinks about it, as the most effective Liberal party leader since William Gladstone, you’ve got to wonder how much more effective he could have been.

Menzies Campbell – remind me who he is again?