Max Clifford arrest: Who is handling the master publicist's own publicity?

With the master publicist unavailable for comment, the task of confirming Max Clifford’s arrest fell to his solicitor Charlotte Harris, a media specialist at law firm Mishcon de Reya.

She represented Mr Clifford in 2010 when News International settled his phone hacking case for £991,000. The website of Max Clifford Associates, the company he set up in the 1970s after working as reporter and music label PR, had no mention of the arrest this afternoon.

However a fund-raising dinner at which he was due to speak on Monday has been cancelled.