Anatomy of a horse story

It’s a Friday, so hopefully you’ll indulge me analysing briefing the total mess that Cameron and his team have made of the Rebekah Brooks horse story. Initially, Cameron’s team spent three days refusing to confirm or deny whether or not the PM had even ridden the horse that Rebekah Brooks loaned from the Met. Yesterday the PM broke his silence with a semi denial:

“Since I have been prime minister I think I have been on a horse once and it wasn’t that one.”

Yesterday afternoon, it was possible. Then yesterday evening, it was likely.

And now Cameron has said today:

“I did ride Raisa, I am very sorry Raisa is no longer with us.”

Confused yet? Four days from ignoring to denying, to potentially confirming to confirming. David Cameron has managed to flip flop on the thorny issue of whether or not he’d ridden a certain horse. Silly season has come early. Lucky us…