1871 not 1998RoyalBlue Dellor has just tweeted to say that Clark Hunt ruled himself out this PM!
That's because, as mentioned already, it was a wind-up that went viral. The wiki mods removed the edit twice! It's so easy to get a rumour going today. In ten minutes you can pluck a billionaire Omani/American, post it up on the rumours forum, mention it with friends in on it on Twitter, and change and quote the wiki.. by tonight it will be everywhere.
I realise that. My point was rather than admit that he had done some very bad internet research (leading to him initially suggesting that the buyer was Hunt) and that Hunt was never in the running, Dellor implies that he might have been but has since ruled himself out!
Proof that standards of journalism at the BBC are dropping!