Sunday Times - Labour aide: Prescott was serial groper: A former senior Labour aide has alleged that John Prescott sexually harassed her over a two-year period. Tricia McDaid, a former political journalist and press officer at Labour party headquarters, said the deputy prime minister "jumped" on her at parties and once turned up uninvited at her home, hoping for sexual favours. She said yesterday: "He just leapt on me at one party and his tongue was halfway down my throat." Such was Prescott's reputation, she said, that she resorted to wearing trouser suits to avoid his wandering hands in the lifts at his Westminster office. She added that she was too afraid to protest at the time for fear of losing her job... McDaid also said that Prescott boasted he had a dossier of people in the Labour party who had slept with one another.

Well, with the exception of Jack Straw (who so far escapes unscathed) that's Blair's support network pretty much fucked. But it's Straw and Blair who lie (or perhaps 'merely' obfuscate) at the centre of one of Neo Labour's greatest crimes.

Perhaps journalists would care to spend some time on that this week, now that these serious allegations are far less likely to be batted away with any great strength.

(See also: The World According To Leo Blair)