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Paul Ovenden, the government’s £120,000-a-year strategy adviser, excitedly discussed an explicit version of ‘snog, marry, avoid’ played by colleagues.

She was asked in an interview with the BBC whether she regretted the comments. But she replied: ‘No, not at all.’