In his Today programme interview this morning, David Cameron was asked about whether he had ever been hunting.
It's hardly the most topical and urgent of issues, and as far as I was aware, I thought it was pretty well known that Mr Camerion had been hunting in the past - before the class warrriors on the Labour benches trooped through the division lobbies to ban it.
Anyhow, he was asked about it this morning and gave a straight reply:
"I was brought up in the country. I have taken part in a number of rural sports, including hunting, from time to time, but not for several years... Personally, I think the hunting ban has been a farce. I don't think it works. I think it wastes a huge amount of police time."
Yet this appears to have outraged the sub-editors at the Guardian, who have headlined a report on the paper's website "David Cameron confesses to history of hunting" as if he had been committing some heinous crime rather than indulging in a perfectly legal activity. And the use in the strap line below of the word "admission" seems to imply that he has been forced into saying something of which he should be ashamed.
As far as I am concerned this is the non-story of the day - but it would seem that some on the Left will think there is political capital to be made out of it...
