Everybody Out

It would take a quite an extra-ordinary circumstance for me to volunteer to share a (twin) hotel room with a male work colleague. And I would never chose to do so if the company was going to pick up the tab and I had several million in the bank anyway.

So to do so "occassionally" could be described as somewhat eccentric behaviour during the election campaign by the shadow Foreign Sec. Now he is First Secretary of State, he should be a little more circumspect about his associations as a married man.

The blogger, Guido Fawkes, has made a series of perfectly legitimate observations based on an FOI request and journalistic inquiry about Hague and his close friend, adviser and colleague, 25 year-old graduate Christopher Myers.

Fawkes described Hague's statement detailing his wife, Ffion's difficulty in conceiving as "nuclear". Certainly a well-chosen word, for very rarely, if ever, is BBC's Nick Robinson lost for words like he was last night.

The Evening Standard suggested today he drafted this personal statement, stressing his heterosexuality, after taking advice from the machiavellian George Osborne. A tangled web indeed. At least George did not, seemingly, advise a photo op of little Hague playing rugger and relaxing after with a plate of rare roast beef and pint of frothy Yorkshire bitter.

The commentators, who have been around related stories for nearly twenty years, have failed to attack Guido and have instead considered Hague's other friendship with Sebastian Coe.

Hague has clearly pinned his entire political career on that statement; it was more of an instruction to media organisations to cease speculating but seven front pages ensued. As Max Clifford said, "it turned a small story into a big one."

Ever the one to support the "normal" MP, Norman Tebbit described Hague as "naive at best, foolish at worst." It wasn't quite clear whether he meant sharing a room with another man or denying its significance.