The issue of misconduct was anyway to be discussed by Mandelson with the police next month. For Lindsay Hoyle, the Commons speaker, to pick up some jet-set gossip about Mandelson about to run off to the British Virgin Islands beggars belief. For Hoyle then to pass the gossip on to the police suggests both he and they were suffering Epstein frenzy. And as for the police then apologising to Hoyle for revealing him as their source – what about apologising to Mandelson? The latter had no conceivable interest in incriminating himself by going into exile.