Wanted!

According to that fount of much wisdom, crime drama on ITV3, lying to the police can be a serious offence, punishable by imprisonment. So one might think that lying to the Queen, our supreme policewoman, as it were, was a very serious offence indeed.

Exemplary punishment indicated?

PS: I am reminded that one of our Prime Minister's cabinet colleagues is on record as saying that the Prime Minister was not a fit person to hold public office. A saying for which he must have made very humble apology, perhaps on his knees before the spare throne kept in Downing Street, but which turns out to have been true.