Damian Green’s private life is not a police matter

So, a former Met detective, Neil Lewis, professes himself ‘shocked’ – yes ‘shocked’ – by the amount of pornography allegedly found on the computer of the Deputy Prime Minister, Damian Green, in 2008. He had analysed the way the computer in question had been used and declared he had ‘no doubt whatever’ that it was Mr Green, then opposition Home Affairs spokesman, who had used it. ‘The computer was in Mr Green’s office…logged in, his account, his name’, said Mr Lewis (at the time working as a computer forensics examiner for counter terrorism operations). ‘It was ridiculous to suggest anybody else could have done it,’ he added.

Well, I like to regard myself as the last prig standing – though I concede that Jacob Rees-Mogg may share my views – when it comes to pornography; on this one, my instinct is to draw my skirt warmly around me as I stick my nose in the air and make for the high moral ground.