The Conservatives are demanding that Channel 4 cancel Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel, a documentary that includes the first public airing of images taken by French photographers immediately after Princess Diana was driven into a concrete pillar.

The film, to be broadcast on June 6, shows one picture of Diana receiving oxygen from a French doctor and other explicit images of the interior of her car.

It also features new interviews with photographers and other witnesses to the crash.

In a bizarre statement, the Shadow Culture Secretary, Hugo Swire, tried to link the documentary to the broadcaster’s mishandling of the Celebrity Big Brother race row. Swire then goes on to say: “It should be remembered that Diana, as well was being a public figure, was a mother.”

Does he mean then that mothers in the public eye should be made immune from scrutiny, or that women should be seen and not heard about? I think we should be told.

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