She could have said what she said and then added 'However, Stanley Johnson's ex-wife said she was beaten repeatedly." Then none of this would have happened.
While watching Question Time is, obviously, unbearable these days, last night's programme where Fiona Bruce all but excused Stanley Johnson breaking his wife's nose and putting her in hospital by saying it was a "one-off" is just about as low as it gets.
For the record, Fiona Bruce is also an...