They say journalists never let the truth get in the way of a good story, but the same might now be true of politicians. Was an illiegal immigrant allowed to stay in this country because he owned a cat, or wasn’t he? The tale (or should that be tail?) gained momentum after David Cameron backed his home secretary, Theresa May, in his conference speech yesterday and confirmed that a Bolivian immigrant had indeed been saved from deportation because he owned a mog named Maya. The inconvenient fact that the Bolivian was in a stable gay relationship received somewhat less attention – and has prompted an interesting discussion about myth-building in politics in today’s Guardian. Half of today’s papers claim the mog was the reason, half of them say it wasn’t. I suggest this political spat is renamed Shrodinger’s Cat-Flap…