Ever wondered what the BBC pays for those interviews with politicians?

Like you, we thought they were free, a chance for the great and good to bang on about their pet campaign. But it turns out that John Prescott and John Reid, both former cabinet ministers, were paid about £250 for their views on the Labour Party conference.

A spokesman for the BBC tells the Mail: “They were given a facility fee to cover the inconvenience and disturbance of being available to BBC News for the whole day, and that is not in breach of our editorial guidelines.”

Hard work, if you can get it.

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