If Liam Fox is to be sacked, let it be for the right reasons.

Since Liam Fox’s lawyers are busy, twitchy buggers I’ll make a point of saying I have no idea whether he’s guilty of much more than foolishness in this Adam Werrity business. Certainly, Fox does not lack for friends and he owes George Osborne a favour (to be cashed doubtless in the event of an Osborne tilt for the party leadership). He might also buy Jim Murphy a pint since yesterday the Shadow Defence Secretary inexplicably failed to target Fox’s “judgment”.

That said, if you judge a “scandal” by whether or not you think the accused should or would have to resign were he or she playing for the other team then I think honest Tories would have to admit that Fox is kippered now. If this were a Labour minister Tory MPs (and the Mail and Telegraph) would be running the Outrage Machine at full capacity. The game’s the game, yo.