'..and indeed the voters of the future...' "..Our children."

'..our children.' Now get off.

Yeah, brilliant, Malcolm, well done. Fucking stunning.

Well, done. Well, done.

OK, we've got to get upstairs, start rehearsing for tomorrow's select committee.

Absolutely. I'm never going to get out of this fucking building, am I?

D'you remember when I came down to see Peter's concert at his school?

His face, the pride he had when he played, his face is etched in my memory.

Yeah? Yeah. Fucking unbearable, that's why I needed Malcolm's expert to try and wipe it from my mind.

Hasn't really worked though. Oh, Hugh, mate, don't panic, you'll manage,

just do what you have to do. Whatever you have to do, you know, do it.

Just make sure that you don't get sweat on your upper lip, makes you look guilty.

What am I supposed to do? I've no idea.

But if you sweat it makes your face look like spam.

It has come to the Committee's notice that, um, you did not see just one

special advisor as you told us in your previous appearance, but two.

Why did you omit to mention that fact?

Yes, I, I apologise unreservedly for that oversight. I-I forgot.

Are you forgetful generally?

Well, it's, er, hard to know, um, how forgetful one is because

you'd have to remember all the things that you'd remembered

and all the things that you'd forgotten in order to compare

and how could I remember what I've forgotten, cos I've forgotten it.

I'm pretty good on the whole - if I see a picture of the Queen, I can put a name to her face.

And if I see a movie, I don't sit there going "Oh, who's that one, is that the cop or is that the pirate?"

So you just accidentally told a slight untruth.

I...my statement was unintentionally not a truthful statement, I-I-I slightly misled the committee.

You completely misled. I misled the committee and I, and I've apologised for that.

Are you lying to me now about not lying to me before?

No, no, I am not a liar.

I categorically did not knowingly not tell the truth.

Even though, unknowingly, I might not have done.

In fact, I wanted to come back and apologise to the Committee.

Very glad to be of service, but you didn't want to come back to this Committee, did you?

You were told to come back.

I am sure the last thing you wanted to do was to come back given how busy you have been recently.