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When Ms Lloyd and Miss Winstanley later heard the society was going to begin accepting female magicians as members, they decided to come clean about their deception and approached the press.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the public deserved to know the level of risk to the UK's economy, jobs and living standards, and called on the government to "come clean" now.

In the Commons, shadow leader of the House Chris Philp urged the government to make a statement and "come clean"; while Tory former minister Harriett Baldwin called for a debate on the government's approach to breaches of the ministerial code.

Philp told MPs the government needed to "come clean and tell the truth".

The book doesn’t come clean about what really happened; most readers, who won’t remember the incident, will be left confused.