Mark Latham’s extraordinary confess-all press conference during which he sought to end a stream of media reports about his past private life, is yet another distraction on the road to the election.It is also a double-edged sword for the Government, for, while the feverish reporting about actual and non-existent events in Latham’s past private life will to some extent impact on the “character question”, it also means another couple of weeks during which Latham and not the Government will be at th…
