Junior communities minister Barbara Follett said the Deputy PM’s now defunct department headed by John Prescott received 13 ‘formal complaints of bullying and harassment’ between 2001 and 2006.

That’s 8 more than Gordonzola, The Man who never shoved anyone in his life, ever.

Perhaps there’s an inverse correlation between the big bully stuff and Cabinet seniority. Maybe Tessa Jowell kills her staff every day.

Let’s start a rumour.