C.P.Snow's first rule of politics: "Be There." The "it's the weekend" excuse is simply pathetic. The Telegraph ran the story on Friday - it's hardly rocket science for someone to have worked out that having someone around over the weekend to handle fallout might be a cunning plan.

My betting is that they're hoping the story will die quietly and, if necessary, they can play the "humourless feminists over-reacting" card.