But consider, again, who will be responding in public to the Leveson Report on Thursday. It will be the McCanns, and people like them: ordinary people who have been badly treated by the media and want to know it will not happen again. In a recent meeting with Cameron, Kate McCann asked why the leaking of her diary – an episode that left her feeling “mentally raped” – had not already prompted a change of press culture. Why was it still possible for the tabloids to publish horrific insinuations about (the wholly innocent) Christopher Jefferies, after the murder of his tenant, Joanna Yeates, in 2010? The question Mrs McCann asked the PM is the question that most people will be asking on Thursday: “What are the lessons from this?”