Clarke also dismissed suggestions that cash-strapped City's reaction to Wise's offence had more to do with getting the player off the wage bill rather than internaldiscipline.
David Cameron will be pondering what the implications of this election could be for internal party discipline: could UKIP's march forward see the battalions of Eurosceptic Tory MPs make life awkward for the prime minister?
"Our most important priority for 2006 must be improving discipline around controls, risk productivity and managing volatility, " Black and Winters said in the internal memo.