Lynne's Parliament and Haringey diary

Watch the rolling news as it turns into Sunday's political programs. Anxiously watching as to the media handling of Mark Oaten's fall from grace. My boy Chris is on Andrew Marr and does really well - and inevitably the Mark Oaten issue is first on the list of questions. What can you say? Except what Chris said - that the guy has apologised to his wife, apologised to his constituents and to the party.

I don't know why he took such terrible risks. An affair - with a man or a woman - is no longer the end of the political road. But the three-in-a-bed with a rent boy combined with the shots of his leadership campaign launch showing him, his wife and their two children was a truly bad move. I just hope he gets the time and privacy he needs to put it back together for the sake of his family. The party will survive fine - but his home life is what matters now.

I phoned round some more key people in London for Chris Huhne's leadership campaign. Everyone was wondering what next? Hopefully - policy ideas. Still finding a real hunger from people to know about Chris. My own view is that playing safe as a third party is a hiding to nothing and that with Chris we will have the best chance to move on to the next stage. Well - I would say that - wouldn't I?

Labels: andrew marr, mark oaten