Foreign Office Minister, Gilliam Merron, has been forced to reveal that the government holds a staggering 39,500 bottles of wine, spirits and liqueurs worth around £792,000 in the parliamentary cellars.
Maybe, it was because they needed the additional storage space, that they sold all of our gold reserve at bottom of market prices and why PM Gordon Brown looks like he is permanently suffering from the mother of all hangovers.
It seems when it comes to the social lives of politicians, we are once again buying the round!
