Judith Woods wrotes:
"Oh Gordon, Gordon, could it get much worse? It was a simple enough question, one that had nothing to do with West Lothian or expenses or even what on earth you've done with our pensions. There was no agenda, no hidden meaning, just a jolly aside during a Mumsnet interview about your favourite biscuit ? and you blew it.
It took more than 24 hours for the Prime Minister to come clean, with an unnervingly vague comment on the messaging service Twitter that he liked "absolutely anything with a bit of chocolate on it", which, if anything, made the whole half-coated digestive debacle worse."