[Gayle]

I wonder, and I'm just playing devil's advocate here, whether it hasn't done far more good to Damian Green to be arrested than if he'd just tried to leak the info out.

He's managed to get a huge amount of publicity out of it and highlighted the Labour government's hypocrisy etc. Without the arrest he would merely have been bleating on about the government, now he's the hero of the hour having been wrongly arrested and people are prepared to listen to him bleating on about the government.