'Why on earth do people get married?'

In this day and age, you just can't trust anyone.

Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce may be no danger to the public, says Rachel Johnson in The Mail on Sunday, but both now face jail for lying about a "common and minor infraction" of the law, one even the prime minister has joked about.

At a dinner a year ago, David Cameron said in his speech that he and his wife were worried about being late. "The traffic was terrible. So we had to speed to get here on time. It's a good job Samantha was driving or at least, ha ha, that's what it says on the forms!"

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