So, Mr Pearson, have you identified the source of the leak...

No. ..of Mr Tickel's records?

No. Have you ever leaked yourself?

No.

No, I was, I was over that pre-Britpop.

Do you have any idea where the leak might have come from?

Well, you know, if this was CSI Miami,

I guess we'd be looking for the person who had the most to gain from the leak being made public.

Well, er, despite your shirt, this ISN'T CSI Miami.

Who do you think would benefit most from the leak?

Well, I guess I'd be sending David Caruso knocking on the door of Mr Malcolm Tucker.

Can I ask you, how would you describe yourself?

Er, I'm a media strategist.

So you would be Stewart Pearson's opposite number?

Er, well, I'd be Stewart Pearson's opposite

in every possible way, I think.

TITTERING You have a lot of control and power over your party, don't you?

Ah-ha!

I wish, yes! Um, no.

I think that that's been overstated.

So this reputation you have as an enforcer,

that's completely misrepresenting you, is it?

It's baloney. Politicians who have to do things that they don't want to do,

such as resign...

er, because they've been caught with their fingers in the till, or, you know,

with their knickers up a flagpole or whatever, they...

sometimes it's very convenient for them to have a bogeyman.

"Malcolm made me do it." Well, I didn't make them do it.

These are people who just find themselves stuck in a room with one exit,

and I simply show them the door.

I've highlighted some quotes.

The Guardian.

"Malcolm Tucker has the physical demeanour and the political instincts

"of a velociraptor."

Yes, The Guardian, the newspaper that hates newspapers.

Telegraph... The Telegr-arse.