Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats had to issue a denial yesterday, saying that
none of the party figures named in the Vicky Pryce emails were told about the speeding points before the story appeared in the press.
Apart from Owen and Rodgers, and to a lesser extent Maclennan and Mabon,
none were front - rank
figures in the Labour
Party, and most were undistinguished backbenchers in danger
of deselection (nothing new there then!).