Early this afternoon, Lumley revealed to the media that the UK Border Agency had written to the gurkhas to say that four out of five of the individuals who won their High Court test case against the Government still did not qualify for residence even under the new rules.
Cue a press conference set to start at 4pm, with Joanna Lumley due to say whatever was on her mind.
Five minutes before the press conference, minister Phil Woolas comes out with a hastily pre-emptive statement (denied as being such) saying that the judgment was an interim one and subject to further review. This in the light of accusations by campaigners of "betrayal".
It appears that the extremely unpopular Government knows that it is up against a very popular British actress (and good friend of Prince Charles), Joanna Lumley who - when her role in the campaign is analysed - appears to be running rings around the Government.
At 4.18pm, Lumley and Woolas 'bump into' each other in the bowels of the BBC's Westminster studio and decide to have an impropmtu meeting in the office of the BBC's political correspondent James Lansdale; delaying Lumley's press conference.
In the end, Lumley and Woolas appeared on camera together... but it was her behind the scenes lassooing of Woolas that was most superb - now encapsulated in a humourous video clip by a creative YouTubian:
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