a real person, and especially not somebody

with a history of mental illness.

Because that sort of thing...

makes me queasy.

So you're an ethical...leaker?

I use leaking to show up corruption, to show up hypocrisy,

to show up idiocy.

And also the fourth horseman of the political apocalypse, duplicity.

For instance, Fergus Williams...

He's coming up next, right? Mm-hmm.

This is a guy, he's a member of the junior party in this coalition, right?

This guy has already opened a private channel to Dan Miller,

the Leader of the Opposition,

in order to talk about possibly setting up a coalition with him,

because he knows very well that this coalition government that he is lumbered with

is being torn to pieces, like a bread stick at a picnic.

Mr Tucker, you have just used this inquiry

to commit a leak in front of us!

I've not committed a leak! Everybody in Westminster knows these talks have taken place. Everyone.

You're supposed to be investigating this, discovering this stuff.

Now, you cannot not know what I or anyone else tell you. Right?

You can't not know that. You cannot not know what you now know.

Mr Tucker, are you familiar with the rules of association football?

I understand if you're going to have an affair you'd better take precautions,

like getting a superinjunction. I ask you because this is me giving you a yellow card.

You're not to use this inquiry to score political points.

Sorry, I'm...I apologise.

Did you see Mr Malcolm Tucker's evidence earlier?

Er, yeah, I, er, saw it out of the corner of my eye.

Do you want me to read what he said about you? No, that's fine. That was the bit that I saw.

Embarrassing, I imagine. Er, no, not at all.

Er, it was, er...almost flattering, yeah,

to get, er, to get Tuckered.

It's a right of passage in...in...in politics.

It happens to all of us, it's...

You know, it's like when you're in a Russian jail, you get your face tattooed.