A non-denial denial

Do read Andrew Sparrow’s account of how the Prime Minister’s official spokesman responded when asked about whether today’s story about Brown’s printer rage was accurate:

This is what the prime minister’s spokesman said in reply: I think it is the sort of unsubstantiated, unsourced nonsense that you would expect to read in Sunday newspapers, not on the supposedly respectable financial wire services. There was then a lovely moment of humour when someone else asked: “But is it untrue, though?” The spokesman said it was “the sort of nonsense that you might expect to read in diary columns” and “not an account that I recognise”. But he did not actually say it was untrue.