Hoon to Vaz: “I trust you’ll be rewarded”

The Telegraph have scored a great scoop.  It’s a letter in which Geoff Hoon thanks the Labour MP Keith Vaz for his crucial U-turn over the recent terror bill – a U-turn which contributed to Brown’s eventual victory.  All fine, until Hoon gets onto Vaz being “appropriately rewarded”… 

“Dear Keith…Just a quick note to thank you for all your help during the period leading up to last Wednesday’s vote. I wanted you to know how much I appreciated all your help … I trust that it will be appropriately rewarded! … With thanks and best wishes, Geoff.”

I’m sure Downing St will be fuming that this made its way into the public realm, and that it was even written in the first place.  Not only will it fuel the idea that our political classes are corrupt, detached and self-serving.  But it also reinforces the Davis campaign message that the Government is playing cynical games with our civil liberties.