Gordon Brown declined to say whether he supported the move to release al-Megrahi

That line from the BBC report on Gordon Brown's courageous press conference just about sums up Gordon Brown.

"BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Brown had chosen his words carefully because of the many sensitivities involved in the case and that No 10 clearly hoped his remarks would draw a line under the matter."

And the BBC will be there helping Gordon Brown to draw that line and stop covering the story except from the SNP angle, not that isn't exactly what they've been doing for the last few weeks.