There were five people in the audience!

Five! And at least three of those were hacks. I've seen more people at adjournment debates about badgers.

The walls of Emmanuel Hall, the venue for the first hearing of the MPs’ Expenses Inquiry, echoed as Alan Duncan spoke to a room with 200 empty seats.

After all the fuss about expenses, the level of publicity this meeting got was pathetic.

And I haven't even got to what Duncan said yet. Watch this space...