SO-CALLED

Tatler Tory Mark Clarke, accused of sordid activities and photographed with associates such as David Cameron and party chairman Lord Feldman, appears to be keeping his powder dry. He is lying low and has denied ‘all allegations of wrongdoing and especially any illegality’. Which sounds like the kind of importantsounding statement that might have been issued by writer Richmal Crompton’s fictional schoolboy rascal, William Brown.