The Prime Minister's Appointment of the Chair of the BBC

The PM's personal finances were in such bad order so urgently that he needed a credit facility of his own despite getting six-figure Prime Minister's salary and however much he was earning for turning out those telegraph columns. The cabinet secretary was sort of involved at some level in this kind of pimping arrangement that involved bailing out the Prime Minister. That actually to me seems to point to something very dangerous. I mean you can't have a Prime Minister who's broke and who's therefore using his office to attend to a crisis in his personal finances. That's like a national security problem as much as anything else.