Regardless it got the Main two parties out of a load of grief ref ruskies on da boat.
The Goverment hid the news well about the airports after 10s if not 100's of millions of wasted money in enquirys and what not was likely to be dropped from most people. Im sure plenty of other intresting gems were "released" and not covered due to lack of time and space.
Just as the Tories looked like a major player was to be crucified it all blew up cheers daily mail.
Then it looks like Labour needed it to say in the news cheers Sky.
Of course many Media outlets will have a pop at the BBC at the drop of a hat so it played right into their hands when this was gifted to them.
