The Crown Prosecution Service now has everything it needs to decide whether or not to bring prosecutions in relation to what the BBC still insists on calling “cash for honours” when what have in fact been sold are not only mere titles (which were invented for that purpose, centuries before Parliament existed), but also seats in the very legislature of this Realm.
Or have they been? Apparently, we must now wait and see. So ponder this: the CPS might yet decide that there is insufficient evidence that any such sale has been taking place. Of course, just like the Metropolitan Place, the CPS are, and will remain, strangers to “Ks and Big Ps”...
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