Pedantic note - cuckold doesn't apply that way round, according to the dictionaries. Edwina was cuckolding her husband; John was betraying his wife. That's how the language works. (Maybe it's sexist - but I can't imagine a feminist demand for a woman's right to be called a cuckold.)

I think it's quite impressive really that Edwina held her tongue all these years, and only spilled the beans once it could no longer do any further real damage to the wreckage of the Tory party. I I was a Tory spn doctor I'd be making great play with that; or with the mesage that this showed how John Major was a man who would never give way to blackmail.

And I see that other rumours, this time about Wilson, are starting to attract attention.Wilson and Falkender claims resurface. She's opened a can of worms, and it's open season on politicians...