Does the police have anything on cash for peerages?

The injunction obtained by the Metropolitan Police against Nick Robinson has given birth to a great deal of speculation. But it has made one thing horribly clear.

Supporters of the Prime Minister have been arguing that the pattern of police arrests suggested that they didn't really have anything.

Forget Guido, they said. The dawn swoops were an attempt to intimidate witnesses into coughing up something, anything, that could be used. Yates of the Yard was aiming for a spot on Celebrity Big Brother, his motivation similar to that copper who nicked Mick Jagger and George Harrison on dope charges.

More than one attempt was made to encourage me to write this.

But I always responded by asking - how do you know? The link between cash and peerages seems fairly obvious to me, but let's wait and see whether there's any hard evidence that would hold up in court, shall we?

The Nick Robinson saga shows that the police definitely do have something, something hard. Otherwise they wouldn't need to protect it with an injunction, now would they?

Comments

[John Hirst (aka) jailhouselawyer]

Yes, the police do have something on the cash for honours inquiry. However, Sam Coates and Philip Webster got it wrong in questioning "whether Downing Street offered loans for honours". This is arse backwards.

It is worth noting that Tony Blair no longer endorses Gordon Brown for the leader of the Labour Party. The reason for this is a missing piece in a jig-saw puzzle. The names of others in the leaked email story are already in the public domain.

It is to be hoped that any reform will separate the role of the Attorney General from the government, if anyone else was seen out in public wearing two hats at once it would appear ridiculous. By the same token, the Lord Chancellor has become the court jester.

I cannot help wondering if the sales figures have shot up in relation to the amount of KP nuts increasing?

[Angeline Levy]

I approve of the new formatof the Times!

[Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD]

Does the police have anything on cash for peerages?
Do they live on nuts and cod liver oil only. Of course that is part of their damn duty to find out the mint protect these stop forgeries and then to check if donations id donations or not. Tax Dept will not do this. They have too many forms to complete too many due dates etc.
Don't tell me you are in Pluto that is out?

[public domain]

"Yes, the police do have something on the cash for honours inquiry. However, Sam Coates and Philip Webster got it wrong in questioning "whether Downing Street offered loans for honours". This is arse backwards."

I agree wholeheartedly.