you covered westminister for many years but are there situation in which lobbyjournalists either don'tay from it completely? i think inevitably. it's less the case that it used to be. 30 years ago, 30—a0 years ago lobby journalists would turned a blind eye to all sorts of things going on in government in order to preserve their sources. i think that is a lot less the case these days and i think lobby journalists, political journalists, those based in westminister are a lot tougher on politicians and rightly so. i think it's difficult in this case because if some of the people, some of the lobbyjournalists were at the party there, potentially sources, people will say, well, shouldn't we as journals should expose what otherjournals are at the party? it's very tricky for people doing the story to get the story far from otherjournalists and then expose them. they can't do that, can they? pippa, you have been reporting on this, were there any journalists at the party? at the christmas party on december 10th, there other journalists there. or no journalists there. the allegation which domini