So she told us, this weekend.

Clare Curran was this week unceremoniously sacked from Cabinet and from the portfolios of open government and digital services, after misleading Parliament about a late-night meeting with entrepreneur Derek Handley.

She failed to disclose she had ushered the innovator and philanthropist into her Beehive office, at 8pm after all her staff had gone home – a meeting she set up via her private email, did not record in her diary, and omitted to reveal in a direct Parliamentary question . . . . . . >