Greg. I'm so glad to see that Jon Host's reply on the BBC site has not closed down the debate.

I'm willing to accept the statement at face value, while remaining troubled as to why they didn't say as much weeks ago when they were first asked.

But in any event, there are a lot of other carefully phrased and very valid questions on that thread, which have been asked by some thoughtful, reasonable and well-informed people.

If Leonard thinks he can get away with stonewalling on those for ever he's not the man I think he is.