So "Two Jags" has become "Two Tickets". Quite rightly, Mr Prescott's entourage was treated the same way as we all are. If you park illegally, you risk getting a ticket.

What separates him, though, is the attempted cover-up, a spokesperson saying he arrived and left by bus.

If he can't be honest about something so trivial as a parking ticket, can we trust anything he says?

Since Ivor Caplin MP watched Mr Prescott getting into one of the offending cars, perhaps he could be asked to confirm Mr Prescott arrived and left by bus?

-R Wallace, Charlotte Street, Brighton