Christine Pratt, the chief executive of the National Bullying Helpline is causing a stir this morning with the controversial nature of a story about alleged bullying within 10 Downing Street but also with some glaring inconsistencies in the way she is telling the story. And as the media realises there is more to this story than the instant gratification of repeating Pratt's initial claims, that inconsistency is being badly exposed. This from Gary Gibbon Channel 4 News:
"She repeated her allegation that she had also taken calls from two people who work "in the deputy prime minister's office" in "the last eighteen months". I asked if she accepted that there hadn’t been a deputy prime minister since the summer of 2007 when John Prescott stood down from the job. She seemed not to have realised that..."
Earlier in the day Pratt went to lengths during a live interview with BBC Breakfast to clarify that none of the accusations were about Brown. Then she told Sky News:
"I have... received an email that is alleging... they have issues with Gordon Brown... but we will be addressing that confidentially and separately".
Of course the greatest inconsistency in all of this is the suggestion that anything has been treated "confidentially".
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