Breaking news from 1998...

The moment the words ‘Darius Guppy’ were used on Dispatches ‘The Trouble with Boris’ last night, I knew that the barrel-scraping exercise had drawn a blank.  This is, after all, so red-hot an exclusive that it first emerged on Have I Got News for You about a decade ago.  It has gained no real traction other than embarrassing Boris on HIGNFY because it’s not really a story – there’s no ‘there’ there.  Go and have a look at Peter Risdon’s site for the details.