He made a good, sound - indeed unanswerable case - for the Duncan Smith welfare reforms as being designed to "save people" not just to save money, and for Michael Gove's schooling revolution as enabling all children to have a chance of getting on in life. His case for the Tory welfare and education policies being part of an "opportunity" society was clearly convincing.

Hoppen, who met the Beckhams when she dated former England football player Sol Campbell, designed the couples homes in LA and Britain.

It was a terrible performance from Jeremy Hunt. But he managed to drag Labour down to his level. Job done.Hats off to Paxo. In the words of Lionel Barber, the editor of the FT who appeared as a guest on Newsnight last night, Paxman "bagged a tiger".

(3) In a January 10 2003 column Hari backed the need for the invasion of Iraq. "Who, you may be asking incredulously, would want their country to be bombed? What would make people want to risk their children being blown to pieces? I thought this too until, last October, I spent a month as a journalist seeing the reality of life under Saddam Hussein," he wrote.

She added she would have been delighted by celebrity, but would have tackled a nosy public and press with "acerbic" wit.