Counsel for the phone-hacking victims David Sherborne appeared to think he was ambushing Piers Morgan with a terribly incriminating smoking gun when he cross-examined the former Mirror editor at the Leveson Inquiry.

But Morgan was ready for the accusation that the Mirror suppressed information about phone-hacking in 1998 and then used it for its own heinous means. And Sherborne ended up, it must be said, looking like a bit of a wally.

Here is their exchange (taken from the official transcript):