Companies may run advertisements for technicians and accountants, but they rarely advertise the top job and if word of a candidacy leaks out, thepersonconcerned usually has no option but to rule himself out of the race.
Later that day, the first victim issued a statement to the effect that theperson he described as "the individual concerned" was not theperson he had previously identified as Lord McAlpine and apologised to Lord McAlpine and his family.