admits his mistake.........should resign!
But pollies don't do resignation any more.
And "news" reports no longer seem to say what Ministers
said, but what they
will say.
Curious.
In 1947, Hugh Dalton - Chancellor of the Exchequer - resigned after having (probably inadvertently) revealed
one sentence of his Budget Speech minutes before he delivered it in the House......
......
o tempora o mores.....