The extraordinary hubris of Chris Huhne

Chris Huhne's 'apologia' has drawn an angry response from the press.

Auberon Waugh used to saythat people who go into politicsare all peculiar in one way oranother. Chris Huhne certainlyfits the bill. It might be thoughtthat a period of silence fromthe disgraced former Lib Demminister would not go amiss,but last week, taking a breakfrom the £100,000-a-year jobas a part-time energy adviserhe walked into, he turned up inThe Guardian with a columnsaying his downfall was largelyRupert Murdoch's fault.

What nonsense, said TerenceBlacker in The Independent.The bruising humiliationsHuhne has suffered "thespeeding points problem, the affairproblem, the 12-months-lying-to-the-public problem, followed by theeight-months-prison-sentence problem" should have been enough, one mightthink, "to bring a person down to earth.After all, a spell in chokey transformedJonathan Aitken from a strutting Torygrandee into a modest, slightly drearychap with a God hang-up."

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