He said he preferred tinned salmon to fresh salmon because he came from an impoverished widow’s family in pre-war Leeds, where the height of posh tastiness was tinned salmon.

A journalist yesterday admitted he also had an affair with the married lover of former British Home Secretary David Blunkett, in a surprise twist to the saga that led to the minister's swift fall from grace.

A journalist today admitted he also had an affair with former British Home Secretary David Blunkett’s married lover Kimberly Quinn.