What do you know? High profile, loud and potentially very powerful people who have wrongly found their way onto the DNA database can get themselves removed.

Well done, Mr Green.

Now, if you just remember this particular inconvience when you get to the top table after the next election, and ensure that the damn thing gets cut way back for the rest of us, that’d be fantastic. Because as it stands, the police and the Home Office seem to think that just about everybody in the land should be on it. And that just ain’t acceptable.