Misunderstood

Chris Myers, the Foreign Secretary's Special Adviser, has stepped down complaining about the press innuendo. I feel sorry for the guy, but not sorry that the story has been followed.

I repeat: what Mr Hague is accused of is, having been told by the Prime Minister to employ only two Special Advisers, employing a third who was less qualified for the job than several others. It doesn't matter a jot if Mr Myers was employed because he was gay, because he made Mr Hague laugh or because he was good at Scrabble.

Hague has made a buttock-clenchingly awful statement about how he is not gay and how his poor wife has had miscarriages, but I am afraid he still has some explaining to do.

William Hague

Allegations in the blogworld and in a couple of newspapers that the Foreign Secretary spent at least one night during the election capaign with his driver, and that the driver has now been appointed as Special Adviser, must be deeply upsetting to Hague's wife Ffion.

The investigation must not stop, however. It is important to recognise that what Mr Hague is being accused of is not homosexuality but of putting the seemingly unqualified man on the public payroll.