David Laws was apparently offered a new pot plant for his Treasury Office when he arrived there for the first time.
The story is that Laws refused to take it.
That he asked while doing so how much the Treasury spends on pot plants.
That he got an answer quickly.
And that the Treasury no longer has a budget for pot plants.
"It's not the sort of thing we comment on," a Treasury spokesman tells me guardedly, when I ring.
David Laws - don't you love him?
