‘cash for honours’ injunction

So what are we are to make of that: answer not a lot, at least until something of substance leaks out, or a BBC appeal is successful.

But if the police asked for it, then it was presumably on the basis that they believed that they had built a case that could be prejudiced. And if the Attorney General sought an injunction, and the court granted one (after hearing the BBC’s public interest defence), then it seems likely that in doing so they accepted that argument and therefore the possibility of a prosecution.

So on balance this is likely not to be good news for those in Downing Street  bunker — much less a cover-up.

Maybe Guido was right, just maybe the BBC got hold of the email: if so I’d guess that fustrated is not even a polite euphemism for Nick Robinson’s state of mind last night.

update 05/03/07: The injunction was relaxed — but not lifted — today; it was about that email from Ruth Turner to Jonathan Powell, and it did concern lord Levy but we’ll have to wait to find what it said. (source: BBC) The statement from the Attorney General’s office was a masterpiece:

The BBC and the attorney general today agreed to a variation of the injunction obtained on Friday concerning a particular document relating to the ‘cash for honours’ police investigation. In agreeing to this variation, the attorney general was not intending to indicate or confirm that any particular document was in fact sent or received.

update 06/06/07 (1): The Guardian reports that that email (which may have been a memo — hence the denials) may indicates that lord Levy tried to influence, or shape, Ruth Turner’s evidence to the police. Oophs!

update 06/06/07 (2): The BBC injunction has been lifted on appeal. It appears that the ‘particular document’ may have been neither an email nor a memo, but a document prepared by Ruth Turner for her solicitors to give to the police; whatever, the contents have still not been made public. Meanwhile, lord Levy has, yet again, ‘categorically denied any wrongdoing whatsoever.