JeremyVine

Very happy to answer this question and sorry for the delay. A large number of freelance employees were asked by the BBC to form companies around a decade ago, and did so. People who form companies often have others as shareholders, and I nominated my wife and daughter as shareholders - which is perfectly legitimate and common practice by people who have businesses. (A newspaper recently reported that my daughter was a director, which is untrue: they published a retraction). Each year I describe all my earnings and investments to the HMRC in a way that is completely transparent and they send me a tax bill which I pay in a timely way. I have never sought to avoid tax in any way, shape or form and I will continue to abide by the law as I always have done.

We may be entering new territory - where, for example, a promise like the LibDems' "we will scrap tuition fees" simply becomes impossible to make. Politics will move away from what was called "sofa-style" under Blair, where a small number of people go into number 10 then emerge and tell us what they are doing. It will move towards much more open bartering between parties. Promises will just be suggestions; everything will be tradeable.

I did trip on a virtual step into 10 Downing Street once. When there is a real object (a green doorstep) and it is overlaid by a virtual projection (a real doorstep that is not real) it can get very confusing. Sometimes I get home and wonder if my wife is actually just a graphic.

Nooooooooooooooooo

I am keen not to; not even in my sleep; not even in conversation with my wife over a candlelit dinner; and especially not here.