HisLordship has also done what he can to reassure the Tories, who are set against change, that his plan will in fact remove the present system's bias against them.
The immediate response to Ms Wood's statement a couple of days later that she was effectively dropping all charges against hisLordship was that it was a move born of desperation and weakness in equal measure.
The once-imperious newspaper publisher, who dropped his Canadian citizenship in order to secure a British lordship, wants to achieve two things: Pocket some of the proceeds from the sale of the Telegraph and insulate himself from the many lawsuits swirling around him.