Huhne's shares come back to haunt him

This morning's Telegraph has an interesting story about Chris Huhne and his share interests in surveillance equipment. As I noted in May, these shares contradicted his first leadership bid manifesto commitment "to roll back [Labour's] security-obsessed surveillance state", and as the Telegraph points out, it also contradicts his current manifesto.

The Telegraph has also gone further and discovered that the surveillance company (in which Huhne's share are worth £250,000) has Tesco as a major client, a company that in recent weeks Huhne has been publicly attacking. Whoops!

A point of clarification on the Telegraph piece though is that they appear to suggest that the share were revealed by the Register published on October 23rd this year. This is not actually the case and they have been in previous published registers for some months.