Are they or aren’t they?

You would expect a company to know if it has called in the administrators (the BBC’s Jeff Randall says you would certainly know if your legs had been chopped off). Yet the DTI’s statement last night differed on this matter from MG Rover’s.

In a difficult week, clear communication between the different parties seems to have broken down. Jeff Randall was more frank about this on the radio this morning than in this written account.