In today's Lib Dem news releases Nick Clegg, our new man with the Home Office Briefs asks, in Met Chief must come up with a very good explanation for his behaviour:

"Sir Ian will have to come up with a very good explanation for this extraordinary behaviour."

Well - picture this: you're going to have a conversation with a man who allegedly changed his mind and legal opinion so many times before the country headed to war and now can't remember what he said when and to whom. Wouldn't you want at least a tape recorder?